"I might say that what amateurs call a style is usually only the unavoidable awkwardnesses in first trying to make something that has not heretofore been made."
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"I like to interpret 'Call me a River', as if I'm saying, 'Now you're telling me you love me after all that, and I'm telling you to shove off.' That's my interpretation. But I would never 'say' that because somebody else might interpret the song in another way."
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"And after death something new begins, over which all the powers of the world of death can have no more control."
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"I can look at something that others (might not) and I can see the value in it. I can make that film a film that everybody wants to see."
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"Quebec from the boat looked like the ramparts where Hamlet's ghost might have walked."
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"We might as well die as to go on living like this."
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"You might perhaps like to see the few canvases I was able to save from the bailiffs and the rest, since I thought you might be so good as to help me a little, as I am in quite a desperate state, and the worst is that I can no longer even work."
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"Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone might be looking. Hear and you forget, see and you remember, do and you understand."
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"In history there are no control groups. There is no one to tell us what might have been. We weep over the might have been, but there is no might have been. There never was."
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"Fanaticism is the danger of the world, and always has been, and has done untold harm. I might almost say that I was fanatical against fanaticism."
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"Sin in the theater, I can observe now, is comparable to education in a university: it is there for those who wish to take advantage of it, but fewer do than you might suspect."
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"Conceptual art might be, for better or worse, (definable as) the art most susceptible to lossy compression."
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"In the ardor of his enthusiasm, a youth set forth in quest of a man of whom he might take counsel as to his future, but after long search and many disappointments, he came near relinquishing the pursuit as hopeless, when suddenly it occurred to him that one must first be a man to find a man, and profiting by this suggestion, he set himself to the work of becoming himself the man he had been seeking so long and fruitlessly."
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"In other searchings it might be the object of the quest that brought satisfaction, or it might be something incidental that one got on the way; but in religion, desire was fulfilment, it was the seeking itself that rewarded."
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"The desire that is satisfied is not a great desire, nor has the shoulder used all its might that an unbreakable gate has never strained."
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"There is only one thing I will not concede: that it might be meaningless to strive in a good cause."
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"You might think I'm bulletproof, but I'm not."
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"Many might go to Heaven with half the labor they go to hell."
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"In all evils which admit a remedy, impatience is to be avoided, because it wastes that time and attention in complaints, that, if properly applied might remove the cause."
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"If you can do one thing you thought was utterly impossible, it causes you to rethink your beliefs. Life is both subtler and more complex than some of us like to believe. So if you haven't done so already, review your beliefs and decide which ones you might change now and what you would change those beliefs to."
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