Quotes 21 till 40 of 78.
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As a bathtub lined with white porcelain, when the hot water gives out or goes tepid, so is the slow cooling of our chivalrous passion, o my much praised but-not-altogether-satisfactory lady.
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AS A MIND, who the hell else is there left for me to take an interest IN??
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But the one thing you should. not do is to suppose that when something is wrong with the arts, it is wrong with the arts ONLY.
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Experience was to be taken as showing that one might get a five-pound note as one got a light for a cigarette; but one had to check the friendly impulse to ask for it in the same way.
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Good art however ''immoral'' is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise.
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Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear.
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Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.
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Hard pounding, gentlemen: but we shall see who can pound the longest.
Arthur Wellesley Duke of Wellington
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Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts.
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I consider criticism merely a preliminary excitement, a statement of things a writer has to clear up in his own head sometime or other, probably antecedent to writing; of no value unless it come to fruit in the created work later.
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I could I trust starve like a gentleman. It's listed as part of the poetic training, you know.
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I dunno what my 23 infantile years in America signify. I left as soon as motion was autarchic - I mean my motion.
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I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.
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I have always thought the suicide should bump off at least one swine before taking off for parts unknown.
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If a nation's literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.
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If a patron buys from an artist who needs money (needs money to buy tools, time, food), the patron then makes himself equal to the artist; he is building art into the world; he creates.
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If the individual, or heretic, gets hold of some essential truth, or sees some error in the system being practiced, he commits so many marginal errors himself that he is worn out before he can establish his point.
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If you have the right voice and the right delivery, you're cocky enough, and you pound down on the punch line, you can say anything and make people laugh maybe three times before they realize you're not telling jokes.
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In our time, the curse is monetary illiteracy, just as inability to read plain print was the curse of earlier centuries.
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