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"America is a vast conspiracy to make you happy."

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"Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or doing it better."

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"Art is like baby shoes. When you coat them with gold, they can no longer be worn."

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"Creativity is merely a plus name for regular activity . . . any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about dong it right, or better."

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"Four years was enough of Harvard. I still had a lot to learn, but had been given the liberating notion that now I could teach myself."

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"If men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men, and become merely machines for eating and earning money."

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"Perfectionism is the enemy of creation, as extreme self-solicitude is the enemy of well-being."

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"The essential support and encouragement comes from within, arising out of the mad notion that your society needs to know what only you can tell it."

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"The founding fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called education. School is where you go between when your parents can't take you and industry can't take you."

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"We are most alive when we're in love."

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