"Art begins when a man wishes to immortalize the most vivid moment he has ever lived."

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Source : Arthur Symons, Karl E. Beckson (1989). “Arthur Symons, selected letters, 1880-1935”, Univ of Iowa Pr

Arthur Symons

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“Because isnâ€™t that the point of every relationship: to be known by someone else, to be understood? He gets me. She gets me. Isnâ€™t that the simple magic phrase?”
“Politics at all times lead to bloody wars, and not only politics, but also religions as well as social and economic systems of alltimes are spattered with blood. Invariably the big ones devoured the little ones, and the little ones the tiny ones.”
“At the end of the day, I want to spend time with my daughter, and this schedule enables me to do that while still having fun hosting '106 Park.' I'm not really eager to get back into music just yet; I'm really eager to get into another movie before I put out an album.”
“I think a lot of people have a misconception of what the kitchen is about, but you know the grueling part of it is also the pleasure of it. That's why I think you have to have a certain mentality to understand what that is and be able to handle it.”
“The law, in this country, is dead. The Supreme Court doesn't follow the Constitution, Congress doesn't follow the Constitution. The President doesn't even want to follow the Constitution. And yet we're the ones called radical.”
“It has been a privilege to pursue knowledge for its own sake and to see how it might help mankind in more practical ways.”
“Isn't hope an incredible, a wonderfully demented thing?”
“Whenever I find a spark of that hidden fire that will sooner or later consume the old and create the new, I am drawn to it with love and hope, regarding it as a sign of my future home.”

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