"All land, no matter what has happened to it, has over it a grace, an absolutely persistent beauty."
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"If you're not at peace, nothing else matters"
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"At the top of the cycle you write policies for everybody, no matter how bad, and at the bottom you cancel everybody, no matter how good. It's a manic-depressive cycle."
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"Subject matter does not determine a successful painting. It is the manner in which one personally envisions and interprets the subject that is the magical equation."
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"Details are all that matters; God dwells in these and you never get to see Him if you don't struggle to get them right."
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"Try any goddam thing you like, no matter how boringly normal or outrageous. If it works, fine. If it doesn't, toss it. Toss it even if you love it."
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"No matter how expected, death is always the ultimate surprise."
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"All systems are capitalist. It's just a matter of who owns and controls the capital -- ancient king, dictator, or private individual. We should properly be looking at the contrast between a free market system where individuals have the right to live like kings if they have the ability to earn that right and government control of the market system such as we find today in socialist nations."
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"If you cut down a forest, it doesn't matter how many sawmills you have if there are no more trees."
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"Detachment is the prerogative of an elite; and as the dandy is the nineteenth century's surrogate for the aristocrat in matters ofculture, so Camp is the modern dandyism. Camp is the answer to the problem: how to be a dandy in the age of mass culture."
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"Proselytism is tolerated by Hinduism. Any man, whether he be a Shudra or Chandala, can expound philosophy even to a Brahmin. The truth can be learnt from the lowest individual, no matter to what caste or creed he belongs."
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"That is salvation. To give of love inside. To keep love of life, no matter what, and give to others. Generously."
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"The things that matter don't necessarily make sense."
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"Success is happiness. People say, "Oh that sounds corny." No matter how rich you are you can only sit your ass in one seat at a time. You have to be comfortable in that seat."
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"Do not believe in an absurdity no matter who says it."
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"Some huge work goes on growing. How could one person´s words matter? Where you walk heads pop from the ground. What is one seed head compared to you? On my death day I´ll know the answer. I have cleared this house, so that your work can, when it comes, fill every room. I slide like an empty boat pulled over the water."
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"The Heart of the matter is Soul, nothing else."
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"Care is a state in which something does matter; care is the opposite of apathy. Care is the necessary source of eros, the source of human tenderness."
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"Terrorism and the whole drug scene are vivid examples of the fact that what persons abhor most of all in life is the possibility that they will not matter."
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"I don't talk about political matters. That's not my department."
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