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.
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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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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Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.
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The poet, by composing poems, uses a language that is neither dead nor living, that few people speak, and few people understand We are the servants of an unknown force that lives within us, manipulates us, and dictates this language to us.
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It is not I who become addicted, it is my body.
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Art is science in the flesh.
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It is excruciating to be an unbeliever with a spirit that is deeply religious.
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The joy of the young is to disobey.
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We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don’t like?
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When a work appears to be ahead of its time, it is only the time that is behind the work.
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There’s no such thing as love; only proof of love.
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Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.
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Living is a horizontal fall.
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Art is not a pastime but a priesthood.
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The dead drug leaves a ghost behind. At certain hours it haunts the house.
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I have lost my seven best friends, which is to say God has had mercy on me seven times without realizing it. He lent a friendship, took it from me, sent me another.
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A film is a petrified fountain of thought.
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