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Quote by Jean Cocteau
When a work appears to be ahead of its time, it is only the time t

When a work appears to be ahead of its time, it is only the time that is behind the work. – Jean Cocteau

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Take a commonplace, clean it and polish it, light it so that it produces the same effect of youth and freshness and originality and spontaneity as it did originally, and you have done a poets job. The rest is literature. – Jean Cocteau

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Ordinary
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I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul. – Jean Cocteau

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Cats
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Set me a task in which I can put something of my very self, and it is a task no longer. It is joy and art. – Bliss Carman

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All profoundly original art looks ugly at first. – Clement Greenberg

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Anyone who has invented a better mousetrap, or the contemporary equivalent, can expect to be harassed by strangers demanding that you read their unpublished manuscripts or undergo the humiliation of public speaking, usually on remote Midwestern campuses. – Barbara Ehrenreich

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Pure innovation is more gross than error. – George Chapman

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