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- Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.
- Eleanor Roosevelt (1884 - 1962)
- Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), Pudd'nhead Wilson (1894)
- It's the place where my prediction from the sixties finally came true: "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." I'm bored with that line. I never use it anymore. My new line is, "In fifteen minutes everybody will be famous."
- Andy Warhol (1928 - 1987), Andy Warhol's Exposures (1979) "Studio 54"
- I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes.
- Carl Sandburg (1878 - 1967), Cornhuskers (1918) "Prairie"
- Nothing is really so poor and melancholy as art that is interested in itself and not in its subject.
- George Santayana (1863 - 1952), Life of Reason (1905) vol. 4, ch. 8
- For an idea ever to be fashionable is ominous, since it must afterwards be always old-fashioned.
- George Santayana (1863 - 1952), Winds of Doctrine (1913) ch. 2
- A writer must refuse to allow himself to be transformed into an institution.
- Jean-Paul Sartre (1905 - 1980), Upon refusing the Nobel Prize, Oct. 22, 1964
- Existence precedes and rules essence.
- Jean-Paul Sartre (1905 - 1980), Being and Nothingness (1943)
- The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes--ah, that is where the art resides!
- Arthur Schnabel (1882 - 1951), in Chicago Daily News, June 11 1958
- You don't understand. I could have had class. I could have been a contender.
- Budd Schulberg, On the Waterfront (film, 1954)
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