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"Diplomacy: the art of restraining power."
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"I live, love and loathe my characters. They stole my mind. They stole my heart."
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"The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art - and, by analogy, our own experience - more, rather than less, real to us. The function of criticism should be to show how it is what it is, even that it is what it is, rather than to show what it means."
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"Create with the heart, build with the mind."
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"If a man devotes himself to art, much evil is avoided that happens otherwise if one is idle."
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"And since geometry is the right foundation of all painting, I have decided to teach its rudiments and principles to all youngsters eager for art."
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"To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it."
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"Hell is full of musical amateurs: music is the brandy of the damned. May not one lost soul be permitted to abstain?"
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"Lying, the telling of beautiful untrue things, is the proper aim of Art."
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"Music communicates with the soul."
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"Romantic art deals with the exception and with the individual. Good people, belonging as they do to the normal, and so, commonplace type, are artistically uninteresting."
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"Even a paranoid can have enemies."
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"For other nations, utopia is a blessed past never to be recovered; for Americans it is just beyond the horizon."
Society
"There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full."
Crisis
"A leader who confines his role to his people's experience dooms himself to stagnation; a leader who outstrips his people's experience runs the risk of not being understood."
Experience
"A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone."
Leadership
"No foreign policy - no matter how ingenious - has any chance of success if it is born in the minds of a few and carried in the hearts of none."
Success
"We cannot always assure the future of our friends; we have a better chance of assuring our future if we remember who our friends are."
Friendship
"I am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850."
Mistake
"The statesman's duty is to bridge the gap between his nation's experience and his vision."
Experience
"Accept everything about yourself - I mean everything, You are you and that is the beginning and the end - no apologies, no regrets."
Acceptance
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