To live, to err, to fall, to triumph, to recreate life out of life.
JAMES JOYCEThe object of the artist is the creation of the beautiful. What the beautiful is another question.
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The light music of whiskey falling into glasses made an agreeable interlude.
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Children must be educated by love, not punishment.
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Shakespeare is the happy hunting ground of all minds that have lost their balance.
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Bury the dead. Say Robinson Crusoe was true to life. Well then Friday buried him. Every Friday buries a Thursday if you come to look at it.
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Your battles inspired me – not the obvious material battles but those that were fought and won behind your forehead.
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The supreme question about a work of art is out of how deep a life does it spring.
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While you have a thing it can be taken from you, but when you give it, you have given it. No robber can take it from you. It is yours then forever when you have given it. It will be yours always. That is to give.
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And then I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he asked me would I yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will yes.
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Places remember events.
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You can still die when the sun is shining.
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Men are governed by lines of intellect – women: by curves of emotion.
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What’s in a name? That is what we ask ourselves in childhood when we write the name that we are told is ours.
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I’ve put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant, and that’s the only way of insuring one’s immortality.
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Fall if you will, but rise you must.
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He found in the world without as actual what was in his world within as possible.
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