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 | "The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by
artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a
stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life." | |
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Found in the topic Art.
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| "The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the
seeking of it." | |
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Found in the topic Dream.
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| "The writer"s only responsibility is to his art. He will be
completely ruthless if he is a good one. He has a dream. It anguishes him
so much he must get rid of it. He has no peace until then. Everything goes
by the board: honor, pride, decency, security, happiness, all, to get the
book written. If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate; the
"Ode on a Grecian Urn" is worth any number of old ladies." | |
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Found in the topic Unsorted.
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| "To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because
of race or color, is like living in Alaska and being against snow." | |
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Found in the topic Color.
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| "I decline to accept the end of man. It is easy enough to say that
man is immortal simply because he will endure: that when the last
ding-dong of doom has clanged and faded from the last worthless rock
hanging tideless in the last red and dying evening, th" | |
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Found in the topic Man.
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| "Be scared. You can"t help that. But don"t be afraid. Ain"t nothing
in the woods going to hurt you unless you corner it, or it smells that you
are afraid. A bear or a deer, too, has got to be scared of a coward the
same as a brave man has got to be." | |
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Found in the topic Afraid.
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| "I believe that man not merely endure: he will prevail." | |
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Found in the topic Compassion.
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| "Tomorrow night is nothing but one long sleepless wrestle with
yesterday"s omissions and regrets." | |
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Found in the topic Night.
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| "Really the writer doesn"t want success.... He knows he has a short
span of life, that the day will come when he must pass through the wall of
oblivion, and he wants to leave a scratch on that wall ? Kilroy was here ?
that somebody a hundred, or a thousand years later will see." | |
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Found in the topic Writing.
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| "The salvation of the world is in man"s suffering." | |
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Found in the topic Suffer.
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| "Time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels;
only when the clock stops does time come to life." | |
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Found in the topic Time.
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