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Any art worthy of its name should address 'life', 'man', 'nature', 'death' and 'tragedy'.
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Any city may have one period of magnificence, like Boston or New Orleans or San Francisco, but it takes a real one to keep renewing itself until the past is perennially forgotten.
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Any general statement is like a check drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.
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Any man who does not like dogs and want them about does not deserve to be in the White House.
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Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae.
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Any woman who chooses to behave like a full human being should be warned that the armies of the status quo will treat her as something of a dirty joke. That's their natural and first weapon.
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Anything I've ever done that ultimately was worthwhile... initially scared me to death.
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Apart from death and taxes, the one thing that's certain in this life is that I'll never be a fashion icon.
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April comes like an idiot, babbling and stewing flowers.
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Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.
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Are not laws dangerous which inhibit the passions? Compare the centuries of anarchy with those of the strongest legalism in any country you like and you will see that it is only when the laws are silent that the greatest actions appear.
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Are there not thousands in the world who love their fellows even to the death, who feel the giant agony of the world, and more, like slaves to poor humanity, labor for mortal good?
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Are wars... anything but the means whereby a nation's problems are set, where creation is stimulated - there you have adventure. But there is no adventure in heads-or-tails, in betting that the toss will come out of life or death. War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.
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Are we like late Rome, infatuated with past glories, ruled by a complacent, greedy elite, and hopelessly powerless to respond to changing conditions?
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Arguments are like fire-arms which a man may keep at home but should not carry about with him.
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Ariel got me into animation. She was the first Disney heroine that really felt alive. She felt like a real young woman.
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Arnold Palmer has what I call an 'Eisenhower smile'. Those two men, they'd smile and their whole faces would look so pleasant; it was like they were smiling all over.
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Arranging a bowl of flowers in the morning can give a sense of quiet in a crowded day - like writing a poem or saying a prayer.
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Art has a double face, of expression and illusion, just like science has a double face: the reality of error and the phantom of truth.
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Art has two constant, two unending concerns: It always meditates on death and thus always creates life. All great, genuine art resembles and continues the Revelation of St John.
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