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- The primary benefit of practicing any art, whether well or badly, is that it enables one's soul to grow.
- The secret to success in any human endeavor is total concentration.
- I apologize because of the terrible mess the planet is in. But it has always been a mess. There have never been any 'Good Old…
- I think William Shakespeare was the wisest human being I ever heard of. To be perfectly frank, though, that's not saying much. We are impossibly…
- It is always pitiful when any human being falls into a condition hardly more respectable than that of an animal. How much more pitiful it…
- Son--they say there isn't any royalty in this country, but do you want me to tell you how to be king of the United States…
- During the Vietnam War, which lasted longer than any war we've ever been in - and which we lost - every respectable artist in this…
- Practice any art, music, singing, dancing, acting, drawing, painting, sculpting, poetry, fiction, essays, reportage, no matter how well or badly, not to get money and…
- You don't do art for any other reason than to help your soul grow.
- Any scientist who can't explain to an eight-year-old what he is doing is a charlatan.
- About belief or lack of belief in an afterlife: Some of you may know that I am neither Christian nor Jewish nor Buddist, nor a…
- Being American is to eat a lot of beef steak, and boy, we've got a lot more beef steak than any other country, and that's…
- Anybody with any sense knows the whole solar system will go up like a celluloid collar by-and-by.
- Any man who would change the World in a significant way must have showmanship, a genial willingness to shed other people's blood, and a plausible…
- Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor…
- Anyway -- because we are readers, we don't have to wait for some communications executive to decide what we should think about next -- and…
- Electronic communities build nothing. You wind up with nothing. We are dancing animals. How beautiful it is to get up and go out and do…
- Since Alice had never received any religious instruction, and since she had led a blameless life, she never thought of her awful luck as being…
- Everybody knows that the dumbest people in any American university are in the education department, and English after that.
- I say in speeches that a plausible mission of artists is to make people appreciate being alive at least a little bit. I am then…
- In the era of big brains, life stories could end up any which way. Look at mine.
- The slaves were simply turned loose without any property. They were easily recognizable. They were black. They were suddenly free to go exploring.
- The women all had big minds because they were big animals, but they didn't use them for this reason: unusual ideas could make enemies and…
- Armistice Day has become Veterans' Day. Armistice Day was sacred. Veterans' Day is not. So I will throw Veterans' Day over my shoulder. Armistice Day…
- I found me a place where I can do good without doing any harm, and I can see I'm doing good, and them I'm doing…
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