- 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