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“... an ounce of help is worth more than a pound of pity any day ...”
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“Any great gift of power or talent is a burden ... But there is nothing to be done. If you were born with the gift, then you must serve it, and nothing in this world or out of it may stand in the way of that service, because that is why you were born and that is the Law.”
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“Without discipline and detachment, an actor is an emotional slob, spilling his insides out. This abandonment is having an unfortunate vogue. It is tasteless, formless, absurd. Without containment there is no art. All this vomiting and wheezing and bursting at the seams is no more great acting than the convulsions of raving maniacs.”
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“A house can have integrity, just like a person ...”
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“Surely the novel should be a form of art — but art was not enough. It must contain not only the perfection of art, but the imperfection of nature.”
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“I wanted to get out of our thimble of a town, where every stone had eyes.”
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“It is not that I belong to the past, but that the past belongs to me.”
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“I would rather feel the sword than behold it suspended.”