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A man who wants the truth becomes a scientist; a man who wants to give free play to his subjectivity may become a writer; but what should a man do who wants something in between?


Robert Musil

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ROBERT FROST By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a da...
ROBERT FROST I go to school the youth to learn the future.
ROBERT FROST Style is that which indicates how the writer takes himself and what he is saying. It is the mind ska...
ROBERT FROST The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended-and not to take a hint w...
ROBERT FROST Some say the world will end in fire, some say in ice.
ROBERT FROST And were an epitaph to be my story I'd have a short one ready for my own. I would have written o...
ROBERT FROST If you don't know how great this country is, I know someone who does; Russia.
ROBERT FROST Always fall in with what you're asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way. ...
ROBERT FROST The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.
ROBERT FROST Nothing can make injustice just but mercy.
ROBERT FROST A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity.
ROBERT FROST The only certain freedom's in departure.
ROBERT FROST Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.
ROBERT FROST Light in Nature creates the movement of colors.
ROBERT DELAUNAY It was the basilica of gossip, the Vatican of inside dope.
ROBERT HUGHES For me, baseball just brings up a lot of nostalgic, happy feelings because I enjoyed it as a kid, an...
ROBERT LORENZ I always say that I don't want to be sentimental, that the photographs shouldn't be sentimen...
ROBERT FRANK I have been frequently accused of deliberately twisting subject matter to my point of view. Above al...
ROBERT FRANK You do your work as a photographer and everything becomes past. Words are more like thoughts; the ph...
ROBERT FRANK It is always the instantaneous reaction to oneself that produces a photograph.
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