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There is only good and bad art.

— William Saroyan

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  1. I believe that time, with its infinite understanding, will one day forgive me.
  2. Nothing has ever been more sure-fire than truth and integrity.
  3. I am enormously wise and abysmally ignorant.
  4. I believe in my work and am eager for others to know about it.
  5. Go ahead. Fire your feeble guns. You won't kill anything. There will always be poets in the world.
  6. It is better to be a good human being than to be a bad one. It is just naturally better.
  7. I have made a fiasco of my life, but I have had the right material to work with.
  8. The child race is fresh, eager, interested, innocent, imaginative, healthy and full of faith, where the adult race, more often than not, is…

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  • art
  • criticism
  • quality
  • judgment

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