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"An angry artist tells people what (he thinks) they need to hear. A hungry artist tells people what (he thinks) they want to hear."
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"The idea that people can be improved by being offended will finally have to meet the idea (espoused some of the time by some of the same people) that books, popular songs, movies, television shows, sex videos, and so on are "just fiction" or "just art" and therefore exist "for their own sake" and have no influence. To argue that works of art are "only" fictions or self-expressions and therefore cannot cause bad behavior is to argue also that they cannot cause good behavior. It is, moreover, to make an absolute division between art and life, experience and life, mind and body - a division that is intolerable to anyone who is at all serious about being a human or a member of a community or even a citizen."
"Through pictures, we can imagine and visualize the reflection of the beauties which our eyes can't see."
"Always seek beauty to create a beautiful life."
"Be an artist in everything you do."
"A great poet can give wings to abstract thoughts that touch a reader's mind with the ecstasy of joy."
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"You cannot force someone to believe something they do not believe, you can only manage to force them to speak or act as if they do."
"Because of self-doubt, the fear of failure, or laziness, most people usually bite off way less than they can chew."
"Back in the day, it was either both a mother and her daughter had pubic hair, or the daughter didn't. Today, in many a case, the mother is the one who doesn't."
"The only way to truly help most drug addicts and most alcoholics is to-instead of them-change reality."
"Security is a double-edged sword: While a fence sure protects the fenced, it also imprisons the protected."
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