“First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.”
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Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.
Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.
Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go according to any rules. They're not like aches or wounds, they're more like splits in the skin that won't heal because there's not enough material.
It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain forever a harmonious conception of memory.