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The artist will have had his revenge for being made to wait, A revenge not only necessary but right and clever—...

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Steven has a role in one of the spots for that campaign. His participation in the Interns spots is reduced. We are looking at alternatives for marketing strategy and that is what the Interns campaign represents, ... We are always looking for ways to represent our brand value. We have an ongoing relationship with Steven. Also, [the] 'Dude, you're getting a Dell' tag line will be sticking around -- it is in the Interns spots now.

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I was last in Rome in AD 540 when it was full of Goths and their heavy horses. It has changed a great deal since then.

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Intuition is the supra-logic that cuts out all the routine processes of thought and leaps straight from the problem to the answer.

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If there's no money in poetry, neither is there poetry in money.

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I believe that every English poet should read the English classics, master the rules of grammar before he attempts to bend or break them, travel abroad, experience the horror of sordid passion and-if he is lucky enough-know the love of an honest woman.

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If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve them.

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The remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he really is very good, in spite of all the people who say he is very good.

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Genius not only diagnoses the situation but supplies the answers.

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What we now call "finance" is, I hold, an intellectual perversion of what began as warm human love.

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There's no money in poetry, but then there's no poetry in money, either.

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A remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he is really very good in spite of all the people who say he is very good.

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Poetry is no more a narcotic than a stimulant; it is a universal bittersweet mixture for all possible household emergencies and its action varies accordingly as it is taken in a wineglass or a tablespoon, inhaled, gargled or rubbed on the chest by hard fingers covered with rings.

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Prose books are the show dogs I breed and sell to support my cat.

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Marriage, like money, is still with us; and, like money, progressively devalued.

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Like Olympic medals and tennis trophies, all they signified was that the owner had done something of no benefit to anyone more capably than everyone else.

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Actors are loved because they are unoriginal. Actors stick to their script. The unoriginal man is loved by the mediocrity because this kind of artistic expression is something to which the merest five-eighth can climb.

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I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affection and the truth of imagination.

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To know the change and feel it,

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I muse with the greatest affection on every flower I have known from my infancy - their shapes and colours are as new to me as if I had just created them with a superhuman fancy - It is because they are connected with the most thoughtless and happiest moments of our lives.

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