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It is pleasant to be transferred from an office where one is afraid of a sergeant-major into an office where one can intimidate generals and perhaps ...more

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History develops, art stands still.

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Hardship is vanishing, but so is style, and the two are more closely connected than the present generation supposes.

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Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that onl...more

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To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art.

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Expansion. That is the idea the novelist must cling to. Not completion. Not rounding off, but opening out.

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If you introduce the human figure you at once arouse either disgust or desire.