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A non-fiction writer pretty much has the shape of the figure in front of him or her and goes about refining it. A work of non-fiction is not as difficult to write as a work of fiction, but it's not as satisfying in the end. ↗

— Chaim Potok

#difficult #end #fiction #fiction writer #figure

It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the artist part of him, than in him. After which let them take tea together three times a week. ↗

— Ezra Pound

#art #artist #find #him #his

If a patron buys from an artist who needs money, the patron then makes himself equal to the artist; he is building art into the world; he creates. ↗

— Ezra Pound

#artist #building #buys #creates #equal

The modern artist must live by craft and violence. His gods are violent gods. Those artists, so called, whose work does not show this strife, are uninteresting. ↗

— Ezra Pound

#artists #called #craft #does #gods

The worst mistake I made was that stupid, suburban prejudice of anti-Semitism. ↗

— Ezra Pound

#i #made #mistake #prejudice #stupid

The only bipartisanship you ever see is when they finally sign a bill and everybody says, 'Gee, isn't that wonderful?' ↗

— Colin Powell

#bipartisanship #ever #everybody #finally #gee

It's nice to say let's be bipartisan. But we're a partisan nation. We were raised as a partisan nation. ↗

— Colin Powell

#nation #nice #partisan #raised #say

Our scientific age demands that we provide definitions, measurements, and statistics in order to be taken seriously. Yet most of the important things in life cannot be precisely defined or measured. Can we define or measure love, beauty, friendship, or decency, for example? ↗

— Dennis Prager

#beauty #cannot #decency #define #defined

Leftists' meanness toward those with whom they differ has no echo on the normative right. ↗

— Dennis Prager

#echo #leftists #meanness #right #those

Therefore the vast majority of the people who affirm leftist beliefs think of their views as the only way to properly think about life. ↗

— Dennis Prager

#affirm #beliefs #leftist #life #majority