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"Literature is the aesthetic exploitation of language."
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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."
"Remember that "seeing is believing" puts the cart before the horse. Art is the concrete artifact of faith and expectation, the realization of a world that would otherwise be little more than a veil of pointless consciousness stretched over a gulf of mystery."
"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."
"The object of art is to enhance the beauty, imaginations and joy of life."
"A pen, a piece of white paper, and an idea can create a new you."
"Be an artist in everything you do."
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"Americans will listen, but they do not care to read. War and Peace must wait for the leisure of retirement, which never really comes: meanwhile it helps to furnish the living room."
"The sweetest and most heavenly of activities partake in some measure of violence - the act of love, for instance; music, for instance. You must take your chance, boy. The choice has been all yours."
"You got shook and shook till there was nothing left. You lost your name and your body and your self and you just didn't care."
"Wedged as we are between two eternities of idleness, there is no excuse for being idle now."
"People don't want to know. They have to be made to know. Whether they act on what they know is up to them. But they have to know."
"The old days are dead and gone days. For what I did in the past I have been punished. I have been cured."
"Feeling very surprised too at myself. I knew what was happening, O my brothers. I was like growing up."
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