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The sinews of art and literature, like those of war, are money. -

The sinews of art and literature, like those of war, are money. – Samuel Butler

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The world will only, in the end, follow those who have despised as well as served it. – Samuel Butler

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Opinion
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Every mans work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself. – Samuel Butler

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architecture
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To himself everyone is an immortal. He may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead. – Samuel Butler

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Immortality
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Art
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The best part of the art of living is to know how to grow old gracefully. – Eric Hoffer

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Art

The more a man cultivates the arts the less he fornicates. A more and more apparent cleavage occurs between the spirit and the brute. – Charles Baudelaire

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Art

Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art. – Tom Stoppard

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Art

Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men. – Friedrich Schiller (1759–1805), Fiesco, translated from German

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Art

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I think I can work with any type of actor. – Ang Lee

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Cynical realism is the intelligent mans best excuse for doing nothing in an intolerable situation. – Aldous Huxley

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“Our country, right or wrong.” When right to be kept right; when wrong to be put right. – Carl Schurz

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