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- 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)
- Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre (1905 - 1980), Closed Doors (1944)
- 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
- When I am asked, "What do you think of our audience?" I answer, "I know two kinds of audiences only--one coughing, and one not coughing."
- Arthur Schnabel (1882 - 1951), My Life and Music (1961)
- I never resist temptation because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Apple Cart (1930)
- Alcohol is a very necessary article... It makes life bearable to millions of people who could not endure their existence if they were quite sober. It enables Parliament to do things at eleven at night that no sane person would do at eleven in the morning.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), Major Barbara (1907) act 2
- The test of a vocation is the love of the drudgery it involves.
- Logan Pearsall Smith (1865 - 1946), Afterthoughts (1931) "Art and Letters"
- The history of the Victorian Age will never be written: we know too much about it. For ignorance is the first requisite of the historian - ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection unattainable by the highest art.
- Lytton Strachey (1880 - 1932), Eminent Victorians (1918)
- Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.
- Alfred North Whitehead (1861 - 1947), Dialogues (1954)
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