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“... when dancing is right, the movement possesss a logic common to us all, an inevitability that takes it beyond the personal and egocentric and makes of it classical art.”
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“... it's expectation that differentiates you from the dead. The dead, so low in their stone rows, making no demands, without desire.”
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“Oaths and curses are a proof of a most heroic courage, at least in appearance, which answers the same end.”
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“We have thought of peace as a letting go and war as a girding up. We have thought of peace as the passive and war as the active way of living. The opposite is true. War is not the most strenuous life. It is a kind of rest-cure compared to the task of reconciling our differences.”
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“It is important to remember that these are your Declining Years, in which you can jolly well decline to do what you don't feel like doing, unless not doing it would make you feel worse than doing it.”
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“Sculpture is a parable in three dimensions, a symbol of a spiritual experience, and a means of conveying truth by concentrating its essence into visible form. ... It must be the reflection of the artist who creates it and of the era in which he lives, not an echo or a memory of other days and other ways.”
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“Nature always levies her tribute.”
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“'Are you a horticulturist?' ... 'Why do you ask?' 'Because your compliments are so flowery!'”