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Give the people a new word and they think they have a new fact.

The New Yale Book of Quotations

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Her secret? It is every artist’s secret . . . passion. That is all. It is an open secret, and perfectly safe. Like heroism, it is inimitable in cheap materials.

The New Yale Book of Quotations

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I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do.

O Pioneers! (1913) pt. 2, ch. 4

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I tell you there is such a thing as creative hate!

The New Yale Book of Quotations

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Men travel faster now, but I do not know if they go to better things.

Death Comes for the Archbishop

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Money is a protection, a cloak; it can buy one quiet, and some sort of dignity.
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No one can build his security upon the nobleness of another person.
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Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family; but to a solitary and an exile, his friends are everything.
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Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.

The New Yale Book of Quotations

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She used to drag her mattress beside her low window and lie awake for a long while, vibrating with excitement, as a machine vibrates from speed. Life rushed in upon her through that window - or so it seemed. In reality, of course, life rushes from within, not from without. There is no work of art so big or so beautiful that is was not once all contained in some youthful body, like this one which lay on the floor in the moonlight, pulsing with ardor and anticipation.

The Song of the Lark

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