The defining function of the artist is to cherish consciousness.
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It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.
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A joke is not a thing but a process, a trick you play on the listener's mind. You start him off toward a plausible goal, and then by a sudden twist you land him nowhere at all or just where he didn't expect to go.
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A liberal mind is a mind that is able to imagine itself believing anything.
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