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John Kenneth Galbraith

"Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable."

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"Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable."

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"History develops, art stands still."

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"You do not need a boyfriend or a girlfriend to write an emotional poet, because poetry is beyond hooks and holes."

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"Music heals all forms of misery."

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"The play was a great success, but audience was a dismal failure."

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"Weirdism is definitely the cornerstone of many an artist's career."

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"People may think I'm trying something new by telling stories, but they're just jokes connected to give the illusion of stories. But really, I just continue using my imagination and creating. That's what I do."

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"Something is always born of excess: great art was born of great terror, great loneliness, great inhibitions, instabilities, and it always balances them."

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"Comedy aims at representing men as worse, Tragedy as better than in actual life."

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"Money differs from an automobile or mistress in being equally important to those who have it and those who do not."
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