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Quote #1:   "The creative impulses of man are always at war with the possessive impulses."
Quote #2:   "The man who has the courage of his platitudes is always a successful man."
Quote #3:   "As against having beautiful workshops, studios, etc., one writes best in a cellar on a rainy day."
Quote #4:   "Nothing is sadder than having worldly standards without worldly means."
Quote #5:   "The American mind, unlike the English, is not formed by books, but, as Carl Sandburg once said to me, by newspapers and the Bible."