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“Life is a mixed blessing, which we vainly try to unmix.”
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“It is the striving after perfection that makes one an artist. It is the sense that one is imperfect, unfulfilled, unfinished. One attempts by a superhuman effort to fill the gap, to leap over it, to finish it in another medium. And one creates a third and separate thing: 'Adventure rarely reaches its predetermined end. Columbus never reached China. But he discovered America.'”
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“No other group in America has so had their identity socialized out of existence as have black women. ... When black people are talked about the focus tends to be on black men; and when women are talked about the focus tends to be on white women.”
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“I believe in the immortality of the soul because I have within me immortal longings.”
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“... the loneliest place to be is a hotel room in a big city in early evening.”
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“The mediocre always feel as if they're fighting for their lives when confronted by the excellent.”
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“... I have always fallen for ads. The sweetheart of J. Walter Thompson, I have a peasant-like belief in whatever miracle they profess to effect.”
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“... life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump: You have to get it right the first time.”