No degree of dullness can safeguard a work against the determination of critics to find it fascinating.
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The aim of every authentic artist is not to conform to the history of art, but to release himself from it in order to replace it with his own history.
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The story of Americans is the story of arrested metamorphoses. Those who achieve success come to a halt and accept themselves as they are. Those who fail become resigned and accept themselves as they are.
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Whoever undertakes to create soon finds himself engaged in creating himself.
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I can't understand it. They just wanted to retire.
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One of the grotesqueries of present-day American life is the amount of reasoning that goes into displaying the wisdom secreted in bad movies while proving that modern art is meaningless. . .
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