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Conformity is the last refuge of the unimaginitive

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I have nothing to declare except my genuis.

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Don't use big words. They mean so little.

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Alone, and without any reference to his neighbours, without any interference, the artist can fashion a beautiful thing; and if he does not do it solely for his own pleasure, he is not an artist at all.

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The public has always, and in every age, been badly brought up. They are continually asking Art to be popular, to please their want of taste, to flatter their absurd vanity, to tell them what they have been told before, to show them what they ought to be tired of seeing, to amuse them when they feel heavy after eating too much, and to distract their thoughts when they are wearied of their own stupidity.

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Consistency is the hallmark of the unimaginative.

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In fact, now you mention the subject, I have been very bad in my own small way. I don't think you should be so proud of that, though I am sure it must have been very pleasant.

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A mask tells us more than a face.

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An optimist will tell you the glass is half-full; the pessimist, half-empty; and the engineer will tell you the glass is twice the size it needs to be.

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The ability of the theist to misunderstand a thing is directly proportional to the obviousness of the thing.

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Just be your self. Everybody else is already taken.

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Do not be afraid of the past. If people tell you that it is irrevocable, do not believe them.

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A virtuous abstinence from the joys of pederasty comes most easily to those who have no taste for it.

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I was disappointed in Niagara - most people must be disappointed in Niagara. Every American bride is taken there, and the sight of the stupendous waterfall must be one of the earliest, if not the keenest, disappointments in American married life.

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When good Americans die, they go to Paris" "Where do bad Americans go?" "They stay in America

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Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.

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You are young. No hungry generations tread you down. The past does not mock you with the ruins of a beauty the secret of whose creation you have lost

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Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.

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People fashion their God after their own understanding. They make their God first and worship him afterwards.

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In every first novel the hero is the author as Christ or Faust.

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