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" The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own. "

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" A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become. "

" In relation to a writer, most readers believe in the Double Standard: they may be unfaithful to him as often as they like, but he must never, never be unfaithful to them. "

" In times of joy, all of us wished we possessed a tail we could wag. "

" To save your world you asked this man to die; would this man, could he see you now, ask why? "

" Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of the victim and on his behalf demand atonement or grant forgiveness; it is the one crime in which society has a direct interest. "

" Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about. "

" No hero is mortal till he dies. "

" Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods. "

" Good can imagine Evil; but Evil cannot imagine Good. "

" God bless the USA, so large, so friendly, and so rich. "

" A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do. "

" One cannot walk through an assembly factory and not feel that one is in Hell. "

" Music can be made anywhere, is invisible and does not smell. "

" I'll love you, dear, I'll love you till China and Africa meet and the river jumps over the mountain and the salmon sing in the street. "

" Before people complain of the obscurity of modern poetry, they should first examine their consciences and ask themselves with how many people and on how many occasions they have genuinely and profoundly shared some experience with another. "

" Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self. "

" Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality. "

" When I am in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a drawing room full of dukes. "

" All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of will but must wait until what he believes to be a good idea for a work comes to him. "

" Sob, heavy world Sob as you spin, Mantled in mist Remote from the happy. "

" Art is born of humiliation. "

" When I find myself in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a room full of dukes. "

" If time were the wicked sheriff in a horse opera, I'd pay for riding lessons and take his gun away. "

" The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition. "

" Learn from your dreams what you lack. "

" Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do. "

" It's a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it. "

" History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions; the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology. "