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The joy of the young is to disobey.

Jean Cocteau

After you have written a thing and you reread it, there is always the temptation to fix it up, to improve it, to remove its poison, blunt its sting.
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Poison Reading Remove Temptation Writing Yourself
Art is not a pastime but a priesthood.
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Art Past Religious Time
If a poet has a dream, it is not of becoming famous, but of being believed.
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Believe Deep Dreams Famous Poet
Fight any instinct to be humorless, for humorlessness is the worst of all absurdities.
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Fight Humor Intuition Mad Worst
Man seeks to escape himself in myth, and does so by any means at his disposal. Drugs, alcohol, or lies. Unable to withdraw into himself, he disguises himself. Lies and inaccuracy give him a few moments of comfort.
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Alcohol Comfortable Drugs Escape Lying Man Moments Myth Seek
An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original.
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Artist Copy Job Order Original
Youth is certain what it rejects before it knows what it will accept.
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Acceptance Rejection Youth
You have comfort. You don’t have luxury. And don’t tell me that money plays a part. The luxury I advocate has nothing to do with money. It cannot be bought. It is the reward of those who have NO Fear or Discomfort.
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Comfortable Fear Luxury Money Play Reward
We shelter an angel within us. We must be the guardians of that angel.
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Angel Home Protection Shelter
Poetry is indispensable – if I only knew what for.
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Myself Poetry Reason
Mirrors should reflect a little before throwing back images.
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Image Mirror Reflection
The only way to kill death is through photography.
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Camera Death Kill Photography Way
The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up.
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Art Artist Bad Fame Give Up Reward Success
Living is a horizontal fall.
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Fall Live One Liner Perspective
Appreciation of art is a moral erection, otherwise mere dilettantism.
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Art Moral Praise
Never do what a specialist can do better. Discover your own specialty. Do not despair if your specialty appears to be more delicate, a lesser thing. Make up in finesse what you lose in force.
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Appearance Better Delicate Discover Force Lose Yourself

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