If I could believe the Quakers banned music because church music is so damn bad, I should view them with approval.

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If I could believe the Quakers banned music because church music is so damn bad, I should view them with approval.

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Literature does not exist in a vacuum. Writers as such have a definite social function exactly proportional to their ability as writers. This is their main use.

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Literature does not exist in a vacuum. Writers as such have a definite social function exactly proportional to their ability as writers. This is their main use.
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Religion I have defined as “Another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art”.

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Religion I have defined as “Another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art”.
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Definition Popular
The serious artist must be as open as nature. Nature does not give all of herself in a paragraph. She is rugged and not set apart into discreet categories.

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The serious artist must be as open as nature. Nature does not give all of herself in a paragraph. She is rugged and not set apart into discreet categories.
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The only history that matters is the history we know.

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The only history that matters is the history we know.
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Known
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 Image is more than an idea. It is a vortex or cluster of fused ideas and is endowed with energy.
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Image
The flavors of the peach and the apricot are not lost from generation to generation. Neither are they transmitted by book learning.

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The flavors of the peach and the apricot are not lost from generation to generation. Neither are they transmitted by book learning.
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If a patron buys from an artist who needs money (needs money to buy tools, time, food), the patron then makes himself equal to the artist; he is building art into the world; he creates.

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If a patron buys from an artist who needs money (needs money to buy tools, time, food), the patron then makes himself equal to the artist; he is building art into the world; he creates.
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The artist is always beginning.

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The artist is always beginning.
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When words cease to cling close to things, kingdoms fall, empires wane and diminish.

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When words cease to cling close to things, kingdoms fall, empires wane and diminish.
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Diminish Empire Word
A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.

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A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.
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Rhythm is form cut into time.

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Rhythm is form cut into time.
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Liberty is not a right but a duty.

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Liberty is not a right but a duty.
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The concept of genius as akin to madness has been carefully cultivated by the inferiority complex of the public.

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The concept of genius as akin to madness has been carefully cultivated by the inferiority complex of the public.
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Concept Inferior
A man’s hope measures his civilization. The attainability of the hope measures, or may measure, the civilization of his nation and time.

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A man’s hope measures his civilization. The attainability of the hope measures, or may measure, the civilization of his nation and time.
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There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and at forty-eight.

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There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and at forty-eight.
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The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

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The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.
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Curse Immediate Sort

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