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“... the artist is not separate from the work and therefore cannot judge it.”
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“Why should we all use our creative power? ... Because there is nothing that makes people so generous, joyful, lively, bold and compassionate, so indifferent to fighting and the accumulation of objects and money.”
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“Dancing brings an endlessness in which nothing matters but to go on dancing — in a room, till the walls disappear — in the open, till the sky, moving as you dance, seems to cleave and let you through.”
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“... Shahid has grown increasingly committed to the art of indignation, waking up in the morning with an expression of incipient disgust already in stock for all the affronts he will surely encounter during the course of the day.”
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“Dying doesn't cause suffering. Resistance to dying does.”
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“Then the song of a whitethroat, pure and ethereal, with the dreamy quality of remembered joy.”
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“Men play harder than they work; women work harder than they play. ”
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“People can say what they like about the eternal verities, love and truth and so on, but nothing's as eternal as the dishes.”