The what is so much more important than how.
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The worst mistake I made was that stupid, suburban prejudice of anti-Semitism.
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Democracy is now currently defined in Europe as a ‘country run by Jews,’
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The only history that matters is the history we know.
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What matters most is not the idea, but the capacity to believe in it completely.
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Poetry must be as well written as prose.
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The art of letters will come to an end before A.D. 2000. I shall survive as a curiosity.
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Fundamental accuracy of statement is the ONE sole morality of writing.
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The modern artist must live by craft and violence. His gods are violent gods. Those artists, so called, whose work does not show this strife, are uninteresting.
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All great art is born of the metropolis.
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What thou lovest well remains, the rest is dross What thou lov’st well shall not be reft from thee What thou lov’st well is thy true heritage.
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The difference between a gun and a tree is a difference of tempo. The tree explodes every spring.
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Wars are made to make debt.
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A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.
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When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.
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Christ can very well stand as an heroic figure. The hero need not be of wisdom all compounded. Also he is not wholly to blame for the religion that’s been foisted on to him.
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