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Quote by Oscar Wilde
No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he

No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist. – Oscar Wilde

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As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied. – Oscar Wilde

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Daughters
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Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everyone in good society holds exactly the same opinion. – Oscar Wilde

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good
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What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying. – Oscar Wilde

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Art
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Gossip is the art of saying nothing in a way that leaves practically nothing unsaid. – Walter Winchell

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Art

When science, art, literature, and philosophy are simply the manifestation of personality they are on a level where glorious and dazzling achievements are possible, which can make a mans name live for thousands of years. – Denis Diderot

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Art

I think good art does come from a dark place. – Rick Springfield

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Art

Many art-worlders have an if-you-say-so approach to art: Everyone is so scared of missing out on the next hot artist that its never clear whether people are liking work because they like it or because other people do. Everyone is keeping up with the Joneses, and there are more Joneses than ever. – Jerry Saltz

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Art

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Wild Bill was anything but a quarrelsome man yet I have personal knowledge of at least half a dozen men whom he had at various times killed. – Buffalo Bill

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Denial exists because human infants, though equipped with trust-o-meters, are built to trust, blindly and absolutely, any older person who wanders past. – Martha Beck

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When I was 15, my parents left town for a month. They hid the keys to the car, but I found them. That month, I drove my stepdads Thunderbird Super Coupe into Manhattan every day, and I would crank Cypress Hill as I flew around the city, racing the taxis. – Danny Masterson

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Ink smears, as thoughts sometimes do. – Terri Guillemets

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