The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation.
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Art is never finished, only abandoned.
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A writer of fiction lives in fear. Each new day demands new ideas and he can never be sure whether he is going to come up with them or not.
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Power is dangerous unless you have humility.
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At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since.
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The cross is the centre of all this in every respect.
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A group or an artist shouldn't get his money until his boss gets his.
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The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.
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A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.
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The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealised past.
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As long as I love Beauty I am young.
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Old age is no place for sissies.
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Later, my father died up in Marysville. So, my mother and I got in the car and came down to Hollywood.
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Do not fear mistakes. There are none.
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I am but an architectural composer.
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I had more clothes than I had closets, more cars than garage space, but no money.
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I used to sell furniture for a living. The trouble was, it was my own.
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Love casts out fear, but we have to get over the fear in order to get close enough to love them.
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Information's pretty thin stuff unless mixed with experience.
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Freedom is the oxygen of the soul.
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Children, dear and loving children, can alone console a woman for the loss of her beauty.
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What is an adult? A child blown up by age.
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I may climb perhaps to no great heights, but I will climb alone.
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Happiness, I do not know where to turn to discover you on earth, in the air or the sky yet I know you exist and are no futile dream.
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Tell me thy company, and I'll tell thee what thou art.
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We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.
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Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down.
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Patience is the art of hoping.
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All sports must be treated on the basis of equality.
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Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.
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The reason for the sadness of this modern age and the men who live in it is that it looks for the truth in everything and finds it.
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Man has made use of his intelligence, he invented stupidity.
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The ideal has many names, and beauty is but one of them.
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For all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams.
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All men's misfortunes spring from their hatred of being alone.
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By the work one knows the workman.
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It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.
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Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.
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It is better to be unhappy in love than unhappy in marriage, but some people manage to be both.
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A good education is usually harmful to a dancer. A good calf is better than a good head.
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Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
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It is not the young people that degenerate they are not spoiled till those of mature age are already sunk into corruption.
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There is no worse sorrow than remembering happiness in the day of sorrow.
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'Til the infallibility of human judgements shall have been proved to me, I shall demand the abolition of the penalty of death.
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The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them.
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As soon as man enters into a state of society he loses the sense of his weakness equality ceases, and then commences the state of war.
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Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end.
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Without freedom of the press, there can be no representative government.
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Those that despise people will never get the best out of others and themselves.
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A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age he dies of being a man.
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Dreaming of a tomorrow, which tomorrow, will be as distant then as 'tis today.
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Art ought never to be considered except in its relations with its ideal beauty.
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Murals in restaurants are on a par with the food in museums.
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Being an actor is the loneliest thing in the world. You are all alone with your concentration and imagination, and that's all you have.
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When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong.
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Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.
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Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
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Art in Nature is rhythmic and has a horror of constraint.
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It is not enough to do your best you must know what to do, and then do your best.
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Tell him he can have my title, but I want it back in the morning.
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Poetry is of so subtle a spirit, that in the pouring out of one language into another it will evaporate.
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I think love and beauty are what life is all about.
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The two operations of our understanding, intuition and deduction, on which alone we have said we must rely in the acquisition of knowledge.
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Education is not preparation for life education is life itself.
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The age of chivalry is past. Bores have succeeded to dragons.
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The New York Quarterly is an amazing, intelligent, crazy, creative, strange, and indispensable magazine.
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Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.
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The best doctor is the one you run to and can't find.
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Most women set out to try to change a man, and when they have changed him they do not like him.
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Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul.
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God used beautiful mathematics in creating the world.
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A billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon you're talking about real money.
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I never called my work an 'art'. It's part of show business, the business of building entertainment.
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Youth is a blunder Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret.
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God employs several translators some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice.
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Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man.
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You can construct the character of a man and his age not only from what he does and says, but from what he fails to say and do.
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The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedoms.
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I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose.
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Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.
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Poetry is the communication through words of certain experiences that can be communicated in no other way.
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Strength of character may be learned at work, but beauty of character is learned at home.
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Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone.
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Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men.
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Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind.
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I feel that marrying younger and being quite a young dad helped me with the stability of my career.
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I have too much respect for the idea of God to make it responsible for such an absurd world.
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Of all tasks of government the most basic is to protect its citizens against violence.
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How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
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A lawyer who does not know men is handicapped.
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So that ends my first experience of matrimony, which I always thought a highly over-rated performance.
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Most vegetarians look so much like the food they eat that they can be classified as cannibals.
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In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order.
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Why can't everybody leave everybody else the hell alone.
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It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him.
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I hold that the perfection of form and beauty is contained in the sum of all men.
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Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.
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Pretend to be dumb, that's the only way to reach old age.
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In the digital age of 'overnight' success stories such as Facebook, the hard slog is easily overlooked.
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