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| 506 quotations in Art, Literature, & Music in English |
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| "A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author."
G.K. Chesterton, English author and artist
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| "Art is anything you can get away with."
Terence
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| "Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't."
Mark Twain
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| "Fool! said my muse to me, look in thy heart, and write."
Sir Philip Sidney
Astrophel and Stella
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| "Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life."
Joseph Conrad
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| "It is not necessary for the public to know whether I am joking or whether I am serious, just as it is not necessary for me to know it myself."
Salvador Dali
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| "It took me fifteen years to discover that I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give up because by that time I was too famous."
Peter Benchley
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| "Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. And inside of a dog, it's too dark to read."
Groucho Marx
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| "Some editors are failed writers, but then, so are most writers."
T.S. Eliot
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| "The difference between fiction and reality is that fiction has to make sense."
Tom Clancy
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