Quote by Thomas Mann
An art whose medium is language will always show a high degree of

An art whose medium is language will always show a high degree of critical creativeness, for speech is itself a critique of life: it names, it characterizes, it passes judgment, in that it creates. – Thomas Mann

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I have always been an admirer. I regard the gift of admiration as indispensable if one is to amount to something; I dont know where I would be without it. – Thomas Mann

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Admiration
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Respectable means rich, and decent means poor. I should die if I heard my family called decent. – Thomas Mann

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Family
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The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life. – Thomas Mann

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I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences. – Walt Whitman

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Rule of art: Cant kills creativity! – Camille Paglia

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Art

The price of a work of art has nothing to do with what the work of art is, can do, or is worth on an existential, alchemical level. – Jerry Saltz

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Art

Every work of art is an uncommitted crime. – Theodor Adorno

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Will some reporter, or some Republican on the Sunday shows, please ask why tax cuts raid the non-existent Social Security Trust Fund but all the Democrats new spending doesnt? Will someone please ask that? – Rush Limbaugh

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Every piece of software written today is likely going to infringe on someone elses patent. – Miguel de Icaza

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A public opinion poll is no substitute for thought. – Warren Buffett

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We live in a world that has narrowed into a neighborhood before it has broadened into a brotherhood. – Lyndon B. Johnson

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