“We work n the dark - we do what we can - we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.”
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One might enumerate the items of high civilization, as it exists in other countries, which are absent from the texture of American life, until it should become a wonder to know what was left.
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Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.
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To kill a human being is, after all, the least injury you can do him.
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