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“Poems very seldom consist of poetry and nothing else; and pleasure can be derived also from their other ingredients. I am convinced that most readers, when they think they are admiring poetry, are deceived by inability to analyse their sensations, and that they are really admiring, not the poetry of the passage before them, but something else in it, which they like better than poetry.”
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“As my poor father used to say In 1963, Once people start on all this Art Goodbye, moralitee! And what my father used to say Is good enough for me.”
Source : Ballads for Broadbrows (1930) "Lines for a Worthy Person"
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“While other creators make a big show of their art Mani Sir makes it look as though anyone can do what he does.”
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“Art does not exist for politics, or for instruction- it exists primarily for pleasure, or it is nothing.”
Source : FaceBook post by A.S. Byatt from Jun 30, 2010
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“Art, however innocent, looks like deceiving.”
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“The rule of my life is to make business a pleasure, and pleasure my business.”
Source : "Wit and Humor of Bench and Bar" by Marshall Brown, (p. 67), 1899.
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“Life is much shorter than I imagined it to be.”
Source : Abraham Cahan (2013). “The Rise of David Levinsky”, p.8, Courier Corporation
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“Life is not meaningful...unle ss it is serving an end beyond itself; unless it is of value to someone else.”
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“When the journey's over/There'll be time enough to sleep.”
Source : 'A Shropshire Lad' (1896) no. 4
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“The world isn't going backward, if you can just stay young enough to remember what it was really like when you were really young.”
Source : A. J. Liebling (2005). “Just Enough Liebling: Classic Work by the Legendary New Yorker Writer”, p.411, Macmillan