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The reason I so rarely break promises to other people? It breaks trust. Without trust, there's no relationship.

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Goldwin Smith

The materials of the novelist must be real; they must be gathered from the field of humanity by his actual observation.

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Above all nations is humanity.

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We Jews regard our race as superior to all humanity, and look forward, not to its ultimate union with other races, but to its triumph over them.

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Art is expression, and to have high expression you must have something high to express.

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America is supposed to be given over to ugliness. There are a good many ugly things there and the ugliest are the most pretentious.

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Every one who has a heart, however ignorant of architecture he may be, feels the transcendent beauty and poetry of the mediaeval churches.

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Thus aged men, full loth and slow, The vanities of life forego, And count their youthful follies o'er, Till Memory lends her light no more.

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The roots of copyright lie in censorship. It was easy for state and church to control thought by controlling the scribes, but then the printing press came along and the authorities worried that they couldn't control official thought as easily.

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Fantasy is seductive and much more wonderful than reality, but you can't take it to the bank. It's always an escape. And if used as an escape, as in attending a movie or a show for a circumscribed period of time, it's fine. When it starts to become undifferentiated from reality, it leads to big trouble.

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