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'Tis the white stag, Fame, we're a-hunting, bid the world's hounds com...  
A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious que...  
A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.  
A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.  
And New York is the most beautiful city in the world? It is not far fr...  
Any general statement is like a check drawn on a bank. Its value depen...  
As a bathtub lined with white porcelain, when the hot water gives out ...  
AS A MIND, who the hell else is there left for me to take an interest ...  
But the one thing you should. not do is to suppose that when something...  
Either move or be moved.  
Genius... is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man see...  
Good art however "immoral" is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can N...  
Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say...  
Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the...  
I consider criticism merely a preliminary excitement, a statement of t...  
I could I trust starve like a gentleman. It's listed as part of the po...  
I dunno what my 23 infantile years in America signify. I left as soon ...  
I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.  
If a patron buys from an artist who needs money, the patron then makes...  
If the individual, or heretic, gets hold of some essential truth, or s...  
It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marr...  
Literature is news that stays news.  
Men do not understand books until they have a certain amount of life, ...  
Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance... poet...  
No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least pa...  
Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written ...  
One measure of a civilization, either of an age or of a single individ...  
People find ideas a bore because they do not distinguish between live ...  
Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensel...  
Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing...   Education
The art of letters will come to an end before A.D. 2000. I shall survi...  
The real meditation is... the meditation on one's identity. Ah, voila ...  
The worst mistake I made was that stupid, suburban prejudice of anti-S...  
There is natural ignorance and there is artificial ignorance. I should...  
There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eigh...  
There once was a brainy baboon who always breathed down a bassoon for ...  
Wars are made to make debt.  
We do NOT know the past in chronological sequence. It may be convenien...  
When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.  
When you cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses...