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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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"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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"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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"Some writers closet themselves - I write wherever I am because that's where life is happening ..."
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"Music gives strength to the soul."
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"Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempest."
Gain
"I never desired to please the rabble. What pleased them, I did not learn; and what I knew was far removed from their understanding."
Achievement
"A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs."
Life
"The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it."
Achievement
"Justice... is a kind of compact not to harm or be harmed."
Harm
"Misfortune seldom intrudes upon the wise man; his greatest and highest interests are directed by reason throughout the course of life."
Life
"The art of living well and the art of dying well are one."
Art
"Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession as they torment us with their loss."
Loss
"I would rather be first in a little Iberian village than second in Rome."
Achievement
"It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls."
Death
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