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"If I could only remember that the days were not bricks to be laid row on row, to be built into a solid house, where one might dwell in safety and peace, but only food for the fires of the heart."
"Education, the last hope of the liberal in all periods."
"His style has the desperate jauntiness of an orchestra fiddling away for dear life on a sinking ship."
"I think with my right hand."
"I find more and more that I am a man of the 1920s. I still expect something exciting. Drinks, animated conversation, gaiety: the uninhibited exchange of ideas."
"Old-fogyism is comfortably closing in."
"The product of the scientific imagination is a new vision of relations - like that of artistic imagination."
"The human imagination has already come to conceive the possibility of recreating human society."
"At 60 the sexual preoccupation, when it hits you, seems sometimes sharper, as if it were an elderly malady, like gout."
"The only thing that we can really make is our work, and deliberate work of the mind, imagination and hand, done, as Nietzsche said, ‘notwithstanding,’ in the long run remakes the world."
"They [the English] have a special word, "civil," for what is elsewhere merely ordinary politeness."
"All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely."
"I am not quite a poet but I am something of the kind."
"I really can't stand any more to pay for a burst of animation when someone comes in for drinks with a depressed and low-keyed next day, in which I have to go around on my hands and knees."