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" A copy of the universe is not what is required of art; one of the damned things is ample. "
Things
Universe
Copy
" All men should have a drop of treason in their veins, if nations are not to go soft like so many sleepy pears. "
Soft
Drop
Go
" Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience. "
Art
Work
Start
" A strong hatred is the best lamp to bear in our hands as we go over the dark places of life, cutting away the dead things men tell us to revere. "
Life
Men
Best
" Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy; but after a war it seems more like astrology. "
War
Military
Astronomy
" Did St. Francis preach to the birds? Whatever for? If he really liked birds he would have done better to preach to the cats. "
Cats
Done
Whatever
" Everyone realizes that one can believe little of what people say about each other. But it is not so widely realized that even less can one trust what people say about themselves. "
Trust
Say
People Say
" God forbid that any book should be banned. The practice is as indefensible as infanticide. "
Any
Banned
Book
" Great music is in a sense serene; it is certain of the values it asserts. "
Music
Values
Serene
" He is every other inch a gentleman. "
He
Inch
Every
" I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat. "
Know
Feminism
Find
" International relationships are preordained to be clumsy gestures based on imperfect knowledge. "
Knowledge
Imperfect
Relationships
" I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute. "
Call
People
Only
" It is always one's virtues and not one's vices that precipitate one into disaster. "
Virtues
Always
Disaster
" It is sometimes very hard to tell the difference between history and the smell of skunk. "
History
Sometimes
Smell
" It is the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion. "
Duty
Soul
Passion
" I wonder if we are all wrong about each other, if we are just composing unwritten novels about the people we meet? "
Meet
I Wonder
People
" I write books to find out about things. "
Write
Out
Things
" Journalism: an ability to meet the challenge of filling the space. "
Journalism
Meet
Space
" Just how difficult it is to write biography can be reckoned by anybody who sits down and considers just how many people know the real truth about his or her love affairs. "
Know
Love
Truth
" Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul. "
Will
Soul
Life
" People call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute. "
Me
Call
Doormat
" The main difference between men and women is that men are lunatics and women are idiots. "
Men And Women
Women
Men
" There is no logical reason why the camel of great art should pass through the needle of mob intelligence. "
Intelligence
Mob
Reason
" The trouble about man is twofold. He cannot learn truths which are too complicated; he forgets truths which are too simple. "
Simple
Complicated
Learn
" Writing has nothing to do with communication between person and person, only with communication between different parts of a person's mind. "
Nothing
Communication
Mind
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