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

"The proper stuff of fiction does not exist everything is the proper stuff of fiction every feeling every thought every quality of brain and spirit is drawn upon no perception comes amiss. And if we can imagine the art of fiction come alive and standing in our midst she would undoubtedly bid us break her and bully her as well as honour and love her for so her youth is renewed and her sovereignty assured."

"Be an artist in everything you do."

"A good artist does not just make imaginations beautiful to the mind, but also more pleasant to the eye with a superb visible touch of excellence."

"The writing of somemenis like a vast bridgethat carries youoverthe many thingsthat claw and tear.The Wine of Forever."

"In my view, the novelist has no right to express his opinions on the things of this world. In creating, he must imitate God: do his job and then shut up."
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"Most human beings today waste some 25 to 30 years of their lives before they break through the actual and conventional lies which surround them."

"The finest inheritance you can give to a child is to allow it to make its own way, completely on its own feet."

"It has taken me years of struggle, hard work and research to learn to make one simple gesture, and I know enough about the art of writing to realize that it would take as many years of concentrated effort to write one simple, beautiful sentence."

"It seems to me monstrous that anyone should believe that the jazz rhythm expresses America. Jazz rhythm expresses the primitive savage."

"So that ends my first experience of matrimony, which I always thought a highly over-rated performance."

"Perhaps he was a bit different from other people, but what really sympathetic person is not a little mad?"

"The first essential in writing about anything is that the writer should have no experience of the matter."
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