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"Not everyone who loves music can play the tune."

"It is in this power of saying everything, and yet saying nothing too plainly, that the perfection of art consists."

"The movies remind me of the Triangle Club at Princeton. I used to belong to it, and we always started out firm in our decision to create new and startling things. We always ended up by producing the same old show. In the beginning, our enthusiasm and ideals discarded as rubbish all the old fossilized plots."

"Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art."

"The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity."

"I want to see thirstIn the syllables,Tough fireIn the sound;Feel through the darkFor the scream."
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"The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well."
Life,

"Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he isn't. A sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is."

"I do not admire politicians; but when they are excellent in their way, one cannot help allowing them their due."

"How well Shakespeare knew how to improve and exalt little circumstances, when he borrowed them from circumstantial or vulgar historians."
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