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It seems that the creative faculty and the critical faculty cannot exist together in their highest perfection. W. Somerset Maugham

Together Creative Critical Seems Faculty Highest Perfection Exist Cannot

It is hard enough to make a plan for how you are going to spend an evening with somebody else. So to make a plan for how you are going to behave in 25 years seems based on a view of life that is incomprehensible to me. Wallace Shawn

Life Me You Somebody Enough Else Spend Seems Make How Years Behave Going Plan View Hard Evening Based Incomprehensible

Literary dementia seems dated now, but there was a time when a month in the funny farm was as de rigueur for budding writers as an M.F.A. is now. To be sent away was a badge of honor; to undergo electroshock, a glorious martyrdom. Walter Kirn

Funny Time Honor Glorious Farm Month Seems Martyrdom Dated Writers Badge Budding Dementia Undergo Literary Sent Now Away

At first sight experience seems to bury us under a flood of external objects, pressing upon us with a sharp and importunate reality, calling us out of ourselves in a thousand forms of action. Walter Pater

Experience Reality First Action Sight Pressing Ourselves Out Thousand Seems Objects Sharp Calling Bury Forms Us Flood External

To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so. Walter Scott

Impossible Everything Seems Because Timid

I've never talked to anyone writing a book on me. I've had so much written about me that is made up, usually something that seems silly enough or weird enough to get remarked upon, and it's pretty much all fiction. Warren Beatty

I myself, as an American Indian, feel like a failure in a way. I have not been able to do anything about the fact that these large corporations are taking so much natural gas and oil out of the soil. It seems like we're always involved in fighting something. It's tiresome. Wes Studi

Myself Failure Natural Soil Fighting Way Corporations Out Indian Able About Seems Something Fact Taking Feel Like Involved Always Been American Oil Anything Tiresome Natural Gas Much Large Gas

So much of selling a film in the industry is about creating a fulcrum where all the pressure comes to bear, and something seems suddenly valuable and approved by an audience. It's amazing how people could pick up tons of films on the cheap, but they don't because they wait until everything is laid out for them. Whit Stillman

People Amazing Wait Valuable Pressure Films Everything Approved Out About Seems Something Bear Could Pick Cheap Until Industry Because Audience How Up Selling Where Laid Them Fulcrum Much Creating Suddenly Film Tons

I think one of the saving illusions of the film business is everything seems like it's about to happen. It's always about to happen. It's only looking back that you see the wasteland. Whit Stillman

You Business Looking Looking Back Think Saving Back Everything See About Seems Only Like Always Happen Film Illusions Film Business

One of the reasons it's important to make a new project is it always seems to improve the reputations of the previous one. Whatever you did before is better than what you've just done, apparently. But I've had to follow the first rule of journalism: Never read the comments. Whit Stillman

You Better First Important Before Whatever Project Rule Follow Seems Previous Never Had Journalism New Make Read Always Comments Than Improve Did Done Just Reputations Apparently Reasons

Liberalism seems to be related to the distance people are from the problem. Whitney M. Young

People Problem Related Distance Liberalism Seems

When you can look at failure and say, 'What is the worst case scenario,' it's not as bad as it seems. Whitney Wolfe Herd

Failure You Say Worst Bad Case Seems Scenario Look

War seems to be one of the most salutary phenomena for the culture of human nature; and it is not without regret that I see it disappearing more and more from the scene. Wilhelm von Humboldt

War Nature Culture Regret Human Nature See Seems More More And More Scene Disappearing Most Without Salutary Human Phenomena

When anyone starts out to do something creative - especially if it seems a little unusual - they seek approval, often from those least inclined to give it. But a creative life cannot be sustained by approval, any more than it can be destroyed by criticism - you learn this as you go on. Will Self

Life You Creative Criticism Starts Approval Those Destroyed Out Seek Give Seems Something More Learn Unusual Least Go Than Any Often Anyone Sustained Cannot Little Creative Life Inclined

That tertiary education is under a sustained assault by a political and - it often seems - social consensus that equates all education with training for increased productivity, only makes academe a still more promising environment for a contrarian. Will Self

Education Training Political Increased Promising Seems More Only Environment Makes Still Often Sustained Social Social Consensus Productivity Assault Consensus

The whole aesthetics of computers very much feeds into my OCD. They fill my head with obsessionalities and my actions become very repetitive. It seems quite inimical to the dreamy state out of which fiction comes which seems so much less causally repetitive than the way one works on computers. Will Self

Everyone complains about the weather, but nobody ever seems to do anything about it. Willard Scott

Weather Complains Everyone About Seems Nobody Anything Ever

The wrong people will do everything in their power to guarantee that the wrong political climate will continue. It seems, then, that the wrong people ensure the wrong political climate and the wrong political climate ensures the wrong people. How then to break free of this vicious circle? William A. Dembski

People Political Circle Will Free Power Everything Ensure Seems Wrong How Climate Continue Political Climate Break Vicious Then Guarantee

East Asia has prospered since the end of the Vietnam War, and Northeast Asia has prospered since the end of the Korean War in a way that seems unimaginable when you think of the history of the first half of the century. William C. Kirby

The Parisian has his amusements as regularly as his meals, the theatre, music, the dance, a walk in the Tuilleries, a refection in the cafe, to which ladies resort as commonly as the other sex. Perpetual business, perpetual labor, is a thing of which he seems to have no idea. William Cullen Bryant

It seems unpleasantly refined to put things off till someone knows. William Empson

Someone Seems Put Knows Till Off Refined Things

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