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It has always been my practice to cast a long paragraph in a single mold, to try it by my ear, to deposit it in my memory, but to suspend the action of the pen till I had given the last polish to my work.

—Edward Gibbon, c. 1790

Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead.

—W.H. Auden, c. 1940

If my books had been any worse I should not have been invited to Hollywood, and if they had been any better I should not have come.

—Raymond Chandler, 1945

Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.

—Frank Zappa, c. 1975

All art is a revolt against man’s fate.

—André Malraux, 1951
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