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Art and Literature
If there is a gun hanging on the wall in the first act, it must fire in the last. [Select] Anton Chekhov (advice to a novice playwright) A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author. [Select] No sane man will dance. [Select] The difference between fiction and reality is that fiction has to make sense. [Select] Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life. [Select] Art is anything you can get away with. [Select] It is not necessary for the public to know whether I am joking or whether I am serious, just as it is not necessary for me to know it myself. [Select] Some editors are failed writers, but then, so are most writers. [Select] A man is a critic when he cannot be an artist, in the same way that a man becomes an informer when he cannot be a soldier. [Select] In a painting I want to say something comforting. [Select] Let's have some new clichés. [Select] A painting in a museum probably hears more foolish remarks than anything else in the world. [Select] These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves. [Select] I live for books. [Select] Thomas Jefferson {Also in: Wisdom and Ignorance} I would rather be attacked than unnoticed. For the worst thing you can do to an author is to be silent as to his works. [Select] What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure. [Select] Samuel Johnson {Also in: Work and Recreation} If poetry comes not as naturally as the leaves to a tree, it better not come at all. [Select] I didn't like the play. But I saw it under unfavorable circumstances -- the curtains were up. [Select] Everywhere I go, I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. [Select] There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher. [Select]
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