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"To choose art means to turn one's back on the world, or at least on certain of its distractions."
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"Once we thought, journalists and readers alike, that if we put together enough "facts" and gave them a fast stir, we would come up with something that, at least by the standards of short-order cooks, could be called the truth."
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"To choose art means to turn one's back on the world, or at least on certain of its distractions."
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