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An essential portion of any artist’s labor is not creation so much as invocation. Part of the work cannot be made, it…
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But neither money nor machines can create. They shuttle tokens of energy, but they do not transform. A civilization based on them…
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We are each born into a situation-a particular body (its race, sex, health...), a set of ancestors, a community, a nation-and born…
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The passage into mystery always refreshes. If, when we work, we can look once a day upon the face of mystery, then…
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All that we make and do is shaped by the communities and traditions that contain us, not to mention by money, power,…
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For the slow labor of realizing a potential gift the artist must retreat to those Bohemias, halfway between the slums and the…
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Unlike the sale of a commodity, the giving of a gift tends to establish a relationship between the parties involved. When gifts…
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What is it about a work of art, even when it is bought and sold in the market, that makes us distinguish…
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...no formula for success [exists] except, perhaps, an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings." "I accept life unconditionally. Most people…
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Hungry people cannot be good at learning or producing anything, except perhaps violence.
— Pearl Bailey
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An essential portion of any artist’s labor is not creation so much as invocation. Part of the work cannot be made, it…
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...these are the problems of the modern U.S. combat soldier, the constant worry about overstepping the mark and an American media that…
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Oh, that," said the king with a shrug. "That isn't your honor, Costis. That's the public perception of your honor. It has…
— Megan Whalen Turner
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Stretched out in front of me was my time as an adult, and then a skeleton, and then nothing except perhaps a…
— Daniel Handler
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Twentieth-century Russian literature has produced nothing special except perhaps one novel and two stories by Andrei Platonov, who ended his days sweeping…
— Joseph Brodsky
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Except perhaps to our God, we all have a facade, even to our closest friends; some of us even to ourselves. .…
— Melvin Belli
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