- Mistake
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Difficult
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- Nov 07, 2020
Of all possible subjects, travel is the most difficult for an artist, as it is the easiest for a journalist.
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish.
- Ignore
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- Nov 07, 2020
Choice of attention - to pay attention to this and ignore that - is to the inner life what choice of action is to the outer. In both cases, a man is responsible for his choice and must accept the consequences, whatever they may be.
- Anxiety
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- Nov 07, 2020
Now is the age of anxiety.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
For who can bear to feel himself forgotten?
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.
- Mental
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- Nov 07, 2020
Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods.
- Laugh
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- Nov 07, 2020
Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.
- Owe
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- Nov 07, 2020
You owe it to all of us all get on with what you're good at.
- Always
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do.
- Must
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- Nov 07, 2020
Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot return.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
In relation to a writer, most readers believe in the Double Standard: they may be unfaithful to him as often as they like, but he must never, never be unfaithful to them.
- Craves
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- Nov 07, 2020
The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition.
- Means
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- Nov 07, 2020
Music is the best means we have of digesting time.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
To save your world you asked this man to die; would this man, could he see you now, ask why?
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
No hero is mortal till he dies.
- Made
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- Nov 07, 2020
Music can be made anywhere, is invisible and does not smell.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.
- Perspective
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- Nov 07, 2020
In a world of prayer, we are all equal in the sense that each of us is a unique person, with a unique perspective on the world, a member of a class of one.
- Horse
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- Nov 07, 2020
If time were the wicked sheriff in a horse opera, I'd pay for riding lessons and take his gun away.
- Distant
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- Nov 07, 2020
Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Before people complain of the obscurity of modern poetry, they should first examine their consciences and ask themselves with how many people and on how many occasions they have genuinely and profoundly shared some experience with another.
- Bread
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- Nov 07, 2020
Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
- Objects
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- Nov 07, 2020
A poet is a professional maker of verbal objects.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own.
- Bed
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- Nov 07, 2020
Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.
- Democratic Society
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- Nov 07, 2020
The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age.
- Friendly
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- Nov 07, 2020
God bless the USA, so large, so friendly, and so rich.
- Human
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- Nov 07, 2020
No human being is innocent, but there is a class of innocent human actions called Games.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
My face looks like a wedding-cake left out in the rain.
- Faith
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- Nov 07, 2020
May it not be that, just as we have to have faith in Him, God has to have faith in us and, considering the history of the human race so far, may it not be that 'faith' is even more difficult for Him than it is for us?
- Marriage
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- Nov 07, 2020