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• The product of the scientific imagination is a new vision of relations - like that of artistic imagination.
• Keep going; never stop; sit tight; Read something luminous at night.
• The Jew lends himself easily to Communism because it enables him to devote himself to a high cause, involving all of humanity,…
• His style has the desperate jauntiness of an orchestra fiddling away for dear life on a sinking ship.
• I have learned to read the papers calmly and not to hate the fools I read about.
• The only thing that we can really make is our work, and deliberate work of the mind, imagination and hand, done, as…
• All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.
• In a sense, one can never read the book that the author originally wrote, and one can never read the same book…
• If I could only remember that the days were not bricks to be laid row on row, to be built into a…
• It is certainly very hard to write about sex in English without making it unattractive.
• If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
• In times of disorder and stress, the fanatics play a prominent role; in times of peace, the critics. Both are shot after…

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