I still believe that if your aim is to change the world, journalism is a more immediate short-term weapon.
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James Joyce - an essentially private man who wished his total indifference to public notice to be universally recognized.
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The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.
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If Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at the age of 22, it would have changed the history of music... and of aviation.
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It is not hard to understand modern art. If it hangs on a wall it's a painting, and if you can walk around it it's a sculpture.
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Beauty is desired in order that it may be befouled; not for its own sake, but for the joy brought by the certainty of profaning it.
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My work always tried to unite the true with the beautiful; but when I had to choose one or the other, I usually chose the beautiful.
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Back in the East you can't do much without the right papers, but with the right papers you can do anything The believe in papers. Papers are power.
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We do on stage things that are supposed to happen off. Which is a kind of integrity, if you look on every exit as being an entrance somewhere else.
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We do on stage things that are supposed to happen off. Which is a kind of integrity, if you look on every exit as being an entrance somewhere else.
Tom Stoppard in Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, 1967
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