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there is art and there is official art, there always has been and there always will be.

How do you like what you have. This is a question that anybody can ask anybody. Ask it.

College professors have two bad traits. They are logical and they are easily flattered.

Eating too much meat gives you indigestion and evil thoughts make you eat too much meat.

All the world knows how to cry but not all the world knows how to sigh. Sighing is extra.

Governing is occupying but not interesting, governments are occupying but not interesting.

I really do not know that anything has ever been more exciting than diagramming sentences.

Men cannot count, they do not know that two and two make four if women do not tell them so.

I could undertake to be an efficient pupil if it were possible to find an efficient teacher.

If you are a thinker, you will change the language. You will not use words the way others do.

I rarely believe anything, because at the time of believing I am not really there to believe.

To write is to write is to write is to write is to write is to write is to write is to write.

There is no reason why a king should be rich or a rich man should be a king, no reason at all.

It is extraordinary that when you are acquainted with a whole family you can forget about them.

Asparagus in a lean in a lean is to hot. This makes it art and it is wet weather wet weather wet

For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts.

If you are looking down while you are walking it is better to walk up hill the ground is nearer.

[On Ezra Pound:] A village explainer, excellent if you were a village, but if you were not, not.

I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed.

The difference between saints, forget-me-nots, and mountains, have to, have to, have to at a time.

Mostly every one is needing some one to be one listening to that one being one being one boasting.

You look ridiculous if you dance You look ridiculous if you don't dance So you might as well dance.

There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing.

A creator is so completely contemporary that he has the appearance of being ahead of his generation.

Perhaps I am not I even if my little dog knows me but anyway I like what I have and now it is today.

One must either accept some theory or else believe one's own instinct or follow the world's opinion.

The family is always the family but during vacations it is an extended family and that is exhausting.

The head-lines which do not head anything they simply replace something but they do not make anything.

One of the pleasant things those of us who write or paint do is to have the daily miracle. It does come.

Picasso once remarked I do not care who it is that has or does influence me as long as it is not myself.

It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.

The subject matter of art is life, life as it actually is; but the function of art is to make life better.

It is so friendly so simply friendly and though inevitable not a sadness and though occurring not a shock.

There ain't no answer. There ain't gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That's the answer.

Anything one does every day is important and imposing and anywhere one lives is interesting and beautiful.

Name any name and then remember everybody you ever knew who bore that name. Are they all alike. I think so.

I was undone by my Auxiliary; when I had once called him in, I could not subsist without Dependance on him.

Once more I can climb about and remind you that a woman in this epoch does the important literary thinking.

If things happen all the time you are never nervous. It is when they are not happening that you are nervous.

A saint is one to be for two when three and you make five and two and cover. A at most. Saint saint a saint.

Disillusionment in living is finding that no one can really ever be agreeing with you completely in anything.

It is inevitable when one has a great need of something one finds it. What you need you attract like a lover.

A little artist has all the tragic unhappiness and the sorrows of a great artist and he is not a great artist.

When I sleep I sleep and do not dream because it is as well that I am what I seem when I am in my bed and dream.

Since it could be done what was the use of doing it, and anyway you always have to stop doing something sometime.

Dogs are dogs, you sometimes think that they are not but they are. And they always are here there and everywhere.

Human beings are interested in two things. They are interested in the Reality and interested in telling about it.

It is natural not to care about a sister certainly not when she is four years older and grinds her teeth at night.

There is no such thing as a natural sentence but there is such a thing as a natural paragraph and it must be found.

I certainly do care for you Jeff Campbell less than you are always thinking and much more than you are ever knowing

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