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"It is but a poor eloquence which only shows that the orator can talk."
Rhetoric
"Could we teach taste or genius by rules, they would be no longer taste and genius."
Genius
"If you have great talents, industry will improve them: if you have but moderate abilities, industry will supply their deficiency."
Will
"A room hung with pictures is a room hung with thoughts."
Thought
"Few have been taught to any purpose who have not been their own teachers."
Purpose
"The real character of a man is found out by his amusements."
Character
"A mere copier of nature can never produce anything great."
Nature
"Words should be employed as the means, not the end; language is the instrument, conviction is the work."
Work
"The value and rank of every art is in proportion to the mental labor employed in it, or the mental pleasure in producing it."
Art
"Invention, strictly speaking, is little more than a new combination of those images which have been previously gathered and deposited in the memory; nothing can come of nothing."
Creativity
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"Always seek beauty to create a beautiful life."
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"For a poet he threw a very accurate milk bottle."
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"I'm trying in all my stories to get the feeling of the actual life across-not to just depict life-or criticize it-but to actually make it alive. So that when you have read something by me you actually experience the thing. You can't do this without putting in the bad and the ugly as well as what is beautiful. Because if it is all beautiful you can't believe in it. Things aren't that way."
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"Of an artistic temperament, I deny that I am; yet I must possess something of the artist's faculty of making the most of present pleasure."
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"Make movies my friend " make nice, inspiring and bold movies that will penetrate the darkest corners of the human mind and illuminate the soul."
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"Music is breath of life."
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"My poems are only bits of scratchingon the floor of acage."
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"A short story is the ultimate close-up magic trick -- a couple of thousand words to take you around the universe or break your heart."
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"For poetry was all written before time was, and whenever we are so finely organized that we can penetrate into that region where the air is music, we hear those primal warblings and attempt to write them down, but we lose ever and anon a word or a verse and substitute something of our own, and thus miswrite the poem. The men of more delicate ear write down these cadences more faithfully, and these transcripts, though imperfect, become the songs of the nations."
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"Music gives life to the soul."
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