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Where misunderstanding serves others as an advantage, one is helpless to make oneself understood.

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The immature artist imitates. Mature artists steal.

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It is now life and not art that requires the willing suspension of disbelief.

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Being a Jew is like walking in the wind or swimming: you are touched at all points and conscious everywhere.

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What marks the artist is his power to shape the material of pain we all have.

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This is the great vice of academicism, that it is concerned with ideas rather than with thinking.

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Our culture peculiarly honors the act of blaming, which it takes as the sign of virtue and intellect.

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Immature artists imitate. Mature artists steal.

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Youth is a time when we find the books we give up but do not get over.

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A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture in the environmental sense and to permit him to stand beyond it in an autonomy of perception and judgment.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Critic

Born: July 4th, 1905

Died: November 5th, 1975

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