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The trade of critic, in literature, music, and the drama, is the most degraded of all trades.
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A master builder who knows his tools and uses them expertly to frame out the structure on which he hangs the garlands of his wit and wisdom.
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The man, the writer, the instrument of the creation will die, but his creation does not die.
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The worker is becoming impoverished absolutely, i. e., he is actually becoming poorer than before; he is compelled to live worse, to eat worse, to suffer hunger more, and to live in basements and attics.
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It is a poor thing for the writer to take on that which he doesn't understand.
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When you're a carpenter making a beautiful chest of drawers, you're not going to use a piece of plywood on the back, even though it faces the wall and nobody will see it. You'll know it's there, so you're going to use a beautiful piece of wood on the back. For you to sleep well at night, the aesthetic, the quality, has to be carried all the way through.
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Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.
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If I had to give a young writer some advice I would say to write about something that has happened to him; it's always easy to tell whether a writer is writing about something that has happened to him or something he has read or been told.
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The writer is delegated to declare and to celebrate man's proven capacity for greatness of heart and spirit, for gallantry in defeat, for courage, compassion and love. In the endless war against weakness and despair, these are the bright rally-flags of hope and of emulation.
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It is necessary to be able to withstand all this, to agree to any and every sacrifice, and even, if need be, to resort to all sorts of stratagems, manoeuvres and illegal methods, to evasion and subterfuges in order to penetrate the trade unions, to remain in them, and to carry on Communist work in them at all costs.
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