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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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AS A MIND, who the hell else is there left for me to take an interest IN??

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Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.

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The jargon of these sculptors is beyond me. I do not know precisely why I admire a green granite female, apparently pregnant monster with one eye going around a square corner.

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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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May God damn for ever all who cry \'Peace!'

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When our two dusts with Waller's shall be laid, Siftings on siftings in oblivion,...

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no picture is made to endure nor to live with but it is made to sell and sell quickly...

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No good poetry is ever written in a manner twenty years old, for to write in such a manner shows conclusively that the writer thinks from books, convention and clich?, not from real life.

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Artists broken against her, Astray, lost in the villages,...

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I ask a wreathwhich will not crush my head. And there is no hurry about it;...

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Man is an over-complicated organism. If he is doomed to extinction he will die out for want of simplicity.

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All my life I believed I knew something. But then one strange day came when I realized that I knew nothing; yes, I knew nothing. And so words became void of meaning. I have arrived too late at ultimate uncertainty.

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It hath brought palsey to bed, lyeth between the young bride and her bridegroom...

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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 mea...

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It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry.... If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the art...

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Technique is the test of sincerity. If a thing isn't worth getting the technique to say, it is of inferior value.

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The Image is more than an idea. It is a vortex or cluster of fused ideas and is endowed with energy.

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The only chance for victory over the brainwash is the right of every man to have his ideas judged one at a time. You never get clarity as long as you have these packaged words, as long as a word is used by twenty-five people in twenty-five different ways. That seems to me to be the first fight, if there is going to be any intellect left.

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Duccio came not by usura nor Pier della Francesca; Zuan Bellin' not by usura...

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