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In this era...

In this era...

In this era of world leadership, the metal detector is the altar and the minicam may be...

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The true function...

The true function...

The true function of art is to edit nature and so to make it coherent and lovely. The artist is a sort of impassioned...

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The agitator seizes...

The agitator seizes...

The agitator seizes the world. The artist is seized by it.

Source: Die Fackel,...

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It's necessary in...

It's necessary in...

It's necessary in order to attract attention, to dazzle at all costs, to be disapproved of by serious people, and...

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To own a...

To own a...

To own a bit of ground, to scratch it with a hoe, to plant seeds and watch their renewal of life - this is the...

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A pin has...

A pin has...

A pin has as much head as some authors and a good deal more point.

Source: In 3,500...

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I think it's...

I think it's...

I think it's bad to talk about one's present work, for it spoils something at the root of the creative act. It...

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Statues and pictures...

Statues and pictures...

Statues and pictures and verse may be grand, But they are not the Life for which they...

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Although a system...

Although a system...

Although a system may cease to exist in the legal sense or as a structure of power, its values (or anti-values), its...

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A person needs...

A person needs...

A person needs a little madness, or else they never dare cut the rope and be free.

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All women hustle....

All women hustle....

All women hustle. Women watch faces, voices, gestures, moods . . . She's the person who has to survive through...

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Wilkie Collins: I am (thank...

Wilkie Collins: I am (thank...

I am (thank God) constitutionally superior to reason.

Source: In The Forbes Book of...

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Harper Lee: I do much...

Harper Lee: I do much...

I do much of my creative thinking while golfing. If people know you're working at home they think nothing of walking...

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Jane Austen: One cannot have...

Jane Austen: One cannot have...

One cannot have too large a party.

Source: 'Emma'
-- Jane Austen, (Dec 16...

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Richard Bach: . . ....

Richard Bach: . . ....

. . . there is such a thing as perfection . . . and our purpose for living is to find that perfection and show it...

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Mary McCarthy: If someone tells...

Mary McCarthy: If someone tells...

If someone tells you he is going to make a realistic decision, you immediately understand that he has resolved to do...

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Nathaniel Hawthorne: The world owes...

Nathaniel Hawthorne: The world owes...

The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient...

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Cynthia Ozick: The engineering is...

Cynthia Ozick: The engineering is...

The engineering is secondary to the vision.

Source: In The Speaker's Electronic...

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Mahatma Gandhi: It is better...

Mahatma Gandhi: It is better...

It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of non-violence to cover...

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Mahatma Gandhi: Rationalists are admirable...

Mahatma Gandhi: Rationalists are admirable...

Rationalists are admirable beings, rationalism is a hideous monster when it claims for itself omnipotence. Attribution...

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