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Inspiration Comes Unawares, From Unaccountable Sources That Have Nothing To Do With Planning Or Intelligence. Let It Cool Ever So Slightly, And You Are Left, Pen Or Brush In Hand, With No Inspiration At All. Gifted People Need Not, Therefore, Make A Song And Dance About Being Or Supposing Themselves Superior. They Simply Happened To Be Born With That Fortunate, Subconscious Equipment Of Theirs, And The Mystery Exists Independently Of Intelligence Or Ambition.

I Prefer Old Age To The Alternative.

Many A Man Has Fallen In Love With A Girl In A Light So Dim He Would Not Have Chosen A Suit By It.

An Artist Carries On Throughout His Life A Mysterious, Uninterrupted Conversation With His Public.

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