Poets and painters are outside the class system, or rather they constitute a special class of their own, like the circus people and the Gypsies.
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The award of a pure gold medal for poetry would flatter the recipient unduly no poem ever attains such carat purity.Gerald Brenan
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Miller is not really a writer but a non-stop talker to whom someone has given a typewriter.
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Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself.
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