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477 Composer Quotes

The true artist is not proud: he unfortunately sees that art has no limits; he feels darkly how far he is from the goal, and though he may be admired by others, he is sad not to have reached that point to which his better genius only appears as a distant, guiding sun.

Admired Appears Art Artist
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We can destroy what we have written, but we cannot unwrite it.

We Destroy What Written
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But what I do I do because I like to do.

What I Do Because
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When a man cannot choose, he ceases to be a man.

When Man Choose Ceases
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It is as inhuman to be totally good as it is to be totally evil.

It Inhuman Good Evil
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I see what is right and approve, but I do what is wrong.

See What Right Approve
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Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.

Laugh World You Snore
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Language exists less to record the actual than to liberate the imagination.

Language Exists Record Liberate
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Senseless violence is a prerogative of youth, which has much energy but little talent for the constructive

Senseless Violence Prerogative Youth
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Readers are plentiful: thinkers are rare.
Readers Plentiful Thinkers Rare
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We all need money, but there are degrees of desperation.

We Money Degrees Despiration
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Bath twice a day to be really clean, once a day to be passably clean, once a week to avoid being a public menace.

Bath Day Clean Week
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The possession of a book becomes a substitute for reading it.

Possession Book Substitute Reading
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Every grain of experience is food for the greedy growing soul of the artist.

Every Experience Food Greedy
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To devastate is easier and more spectacular than to create.

Devastate Easier Spectacular Create
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Life to most of us is just a jumble of sensations, like a very bad film with no plot, no real beginning and end.

Life Sensations Very Film
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You must take your chance boy. The choice has been all yours.

You Take Chance Choice
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The important thing is moral choice. Evil has to exist along with good, in order that moral choice may operate. Life is sustained by the grinding opposition of moral entities.

Important thing Moral Choice Evil
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...We're a government that believes in everybody having the illusion of free will.

Government Believes Everybody Illusion
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If you believe in an unseen Christ, you will believe in the unseen Christlike potential of others.

Believe Unseen Christ Potential
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Translation is not a matter of words only: it is a matter of making intelligible a whole culture.

Translation Words Making Intelligible
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The practice of fiction can be dangerous: it puts ideas into the head of the world.

Practice Fiction Dangerous Ideas
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Writers are rarely their own best critics, nor are critics.

Writers Rarely Best Critics
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Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art.

Music Own experience Own thought Your wisdom
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Don't be afraid, just play the music.

Be afraid Play The music
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If you don't live it, it won't come out your horn

You don't Live it Come out Your horn
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Man, there's no boundary line to art!

No boundary line To art
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Learn the changes, then forget them.

Learn The change Forget them
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I don’t believe that the public knows what it wants; this is the conclusion that I have drawn from my career.

Don't believe The public Knows It wants
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To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain, and play with it

Truly laugh Be able Your pain Play
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My pain may be the reason for somebody’s laugh. But my laugh must never be the reason for somebody’s pain.

My pain The reason Somebody's laugh Never be
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A tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure.

A tramp Gentleman Poet A dreamer
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You’ll find that life is still worthwhile, if you just smile

Life Still worthwhile Just smile
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Perfect love is the most beautiful of all frustrations because it is more than one can express.
Perfect love Most beautiful All frustrations
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Laughter is the tonic, the relief, the surcease for pain.

Laughter The tonic The relief Surcease
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What do you want a meaning for? Life is a desire, not a meaning.

Meaning for Life A desire
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Words are cheap. The biggest thing you can say is ‘elephant’.
Words Cheap Biggest thing Elephant
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We think too much and feel too little.

We think Too much Feel Too little
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I suppose that’s one of the ironies of life doing the wrong thing at the right moment.

The ironies Life Wrong thing Right moment
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That’s the trouble with the world. We all despise ourselves.

The trouble The world Despise ourselves
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Imagination means nothing without doing.

Imagination Means nothing Without doing
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Life can be wonderful if you’re not afraid of it. All it takes is courage, imagination,and a little dough.

Life Be wonderful Not afraid It takes
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I am at peace with God. My conflict is with Man.

At peace With God My conflict With man
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The mirror is my best friend because when I cry it never laughs.

The mirror Best friend I cry Never laughs
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Nothing is permanent in this wicked world,not even our troubles.

Nothing Is permanent Wicked world Our troubles
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To help a friend in need is easy, but to give him your time is not always opportune.

To help A friend In need Is easy
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A man’s true character comes out when he’s drunk.

Man's true Character Comes out He's drunk
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I do not need drugs to be a genius, do not take a genius to be human, but I need your smile to be happy.
Need drugs A genius Be human Your smile
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Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone.

Life Be wonderful People Leave you
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Life is a play that does not allow testing. So, sing, cry, dance, laugh and live intensely, before the curtain closes and the piece ends with no Applause.

Life A play Allow testing Live intensely
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