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When something can be read without effort, great effort has gone into its writing.

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Igor Stravinsky

Mediocrity borrows, genius steals.

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Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.

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It is the transcendent (or 'abstract' or 'self-contained') nature of music that the new so called concretism--Pop Art, eighteen-hour slices-of-reality films, musique concrete--opposes. But instead of bringing art and reality closer together, the new movement merely thins out the distinction.

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The faculty of creating is never given to us all by itself. It always goes hand in hand with the gift of observation.

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A plague on eminence! I hardly dare cross the street any more without a convoy, and I am stared at wherever I go like an idiot member of a royal family or an animal in a zoo; and zoo animals have been known to die from stares.

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My childhood was a period of waiting for the moment when I could send everyone and everything connected with it to hell.

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