"An actor is part illusionist, part artist, part ham."
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"Bad artists always admire each others work."
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"The only beautiful things are the things that do not concern us."
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"We live in the age of the overworked and the undereducated."
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"When I am in trouble, eating is the only thing that consoles me. Indeed, as any one who knows me intimately will tell you, I refuse everything except food and drink. At the present moment I am eating muffins because I am unhappy. Besides, I am particularly fond of muffins."
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"One's days were too brief to take the burden of another's errors on one's shoulders. Each man lived his own life and paid his own price for living it."
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"Ordinary people waited till life disclosed to them its secrets, but to the few, to the elect, the mysteries of life were revealed before the veil was drawn away. Sometimes this was the effect of art, and chiefly of the art of literature, which dealt immediately with the passions and the intellect."
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"There were moments when he looked on evil simply as a mode through which he could realize his conception of the beautiful."
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"The ability of the theist to misunderstand a thing is directly proportional to the obviousness of the thing."
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"Wisdom comes with winters"
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"There are two ways of disliking poetry, one way is to dislike it, the other is to read Pope."
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"There are moments when art attains almost to the dignity of manual labor."
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"On an occasion of this kind it becomes more than a moral duty to speak one's mind. It becomes a pleasure."
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"I do not approve of anything that tampers with natural ignorance. Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone. The whole theory of modern education is radically unsound. Fortunately in England, at any rate, education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes, and probably lead to acts of violence in Grosvenor Square."
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"All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril. Those who read the symbol do so at their peril. It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors. Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the work is new, complex, and vital. When critics disagree, the artist is in accord with himself."
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"God and other artists are always a little obscure."
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"We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language."
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"The youth of America is their oldest tradition. It has been going on now for three hundred years."
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"In matters of grave importance, style, not sincerity, is the vital thing."
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"Books are never finished, They are merely abandoned."
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