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Immature artists imitate. Mature artists steal.
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We are all ill; but even a universal sickness implies an idea of health.
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What marks the artist is his power to shape the material of pain we all have.
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It is now life and not art that requires the willing suspension of disbelief.
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Where misunderstanding serves others as an advantage, one is helpless to make oneself understood.
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Our culture peculiarly honors the act of blaming, which it takes as the sign of virtue and intellect.
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In the United States at this time liberalism is not only the dominant but even the sole intellectual tradition.
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After all, no one is ever taken in by the happy ending, but we are often divinely fuddled by the tragic curtain.
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There is no connection between the political ideas of our educated class and the deep places of the imagination.
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We who are liberal and progressive know that the poor are our equals in every sense except that of being equal to us.
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Probably it is impossible for humor to be ever a revolutionary weapon. Candide can do little more than generate irony.
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The poet is in command of his fantasy, while it is exactly the mark of the neurotic that he is possessed by his fantasy.
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In the American metaphysic, reality is always material reality, hard, resistant, unformed, impenetrable, and unpleasant.
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Everything which the economist takes from you in the way of life and humanity, he restores to you in the form of money and wealth.
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Unless we insist that politics is imagination and mind, we will learn that imagination and mind are politics, and of a kind we will not like.
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At the bottom of at least popular Marxism there has always been a kind of disgust with humanity as it is and a perfect faith in humanity as it is to be.
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The spectator, we might put it, contracts by infection the characteristic disease of the actor, the attenuation of selfhood that results from impersonation.
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If one defends the bourgeois, philistine virtues, one does not defend them merely from the demonism or bohemianism of the artist but from the present bourgeoisie itself.
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Even the nonreligious may exercise aesthetic judgment in matters of religion, and indeed our age has given the unbelieving a sophisticated taste in religious literature.
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We are at heart so profoundly anarchistic that the only form of state we can imagine living in is Utopian; and so cynical that the only Utopia we can believe in is authoritarian.
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Freud … showed us that poetry is indigenous to the very constitution of the mind; he saw the mind as being, in the greater part of its tendency, exactly a poetry-making faculty.
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The poet, it is true, is an effect of environment, but we must remember that he is no less a cause. He may be used as the barometer, but let us not forget that he is also part of the weather.
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Occasions are rare when the best literature becomes, as it were, the folk literature, and generally speaking literature has always been carried on within small limits and under great difficulties.
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The diminution of the reality of class, however socially desirable in many respects, seems to have the practical effect of diminishing our ability to see people in their difference and specialness.
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Be a sinner and sin strongly, but more strongly have faith and rejoice in Christ.
Martin Luther
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Born:
July 4, 1905
Died:
November 5, 1975
(aged 70)
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