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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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“Facts and truth really don't have much to do with each other.”
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“Some things you must always be unable to bear. Some things you must never stop refusing to bear. Injustice and outrage and dishonor and shame. No matter how young you are or how old you have got. Not for kudos and not for cash. Your picture in the paper nor money in the bank, neither. Just refuse to bear them.”
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“Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.”
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“The salvation of the world is in man's suffering”
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“A writer needs three things, experience, observation, and imagination, any two of which, at times any one of which, can supply the lack of the others”
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“No man can write who is not first a humanitarian”
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“Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.”
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“The artist doesn't have time to listen to the critics. The ones who want to be writers read the reviews, the ones who want to write don't have the time to read reviews.”
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“It's a shame that the only thing a man can do for eight hours a day is work. He can't eat for eight hours; he can't drink for eight hours; he can't make love for eight hours. The only thing a man can do for eight hours is work.”
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“I decline to accept the end of man.”
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