John Wain quotes
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“I have nothing to say. And I am saying it. That's poetry.”
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“There, at the centre, are the artists who really form the consciousness of their time; they respond deeply, intuitively to what is happening, what has happened, and what will happen, and their response is expressed in metaphor, in image and in fable.”
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“The cinema is - in Jean Cocteau’s famous words - ‘a dream that can be dreamt by many people at the same time’.”
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“How much of our literature, our political life, our friendships and love affairs, depend on being able to talk peacefully in a bar!”
-- John WainSource : "Simpson's Contemporary Quotations". Book by James B. Simpson, p. 301, 1988.
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