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Quote by Heywood Broun
In a certain sense every creative person is a reformer, but this d

In a certain sense every creative person is a reformer, but this does not mean that he must be in his work a propagandist for good roads, shorter hours, and a low tariff. All these are excellent things, but they need not be the concern of the artist. – Heywood Broun

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The most prolific period of pessimism comes at twenty-one or thereabouts, when the first attempt is made to translate dreams into reality. – Heywood Broun

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I doubt whether the world holds for anyone a more soul-stirring surprise than the first adventure with ice cream. – Heywood Broun

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Free speech is about as good as cause as the world has ever known. But, like the poor, it is always with us and gets shoved aside in favour of things which seem at some given moment more vital. – Heywood Broun

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The role of the artist I now understood as that of revealing through the world-surfaces the implicit forms of the soul, and the great agent to assist the artist was the myth. – Joseph Campbell

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I could draw Bloom County with my nose and pay my cleaning lady to write it, and Id bet I wouldnt lose 10 % of my papers over the next twenty years. Such is the nature of comic-strips. Once established, their half-life is usually more than nuclear waste. – Berke Breathed

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Nothing exists until or unless it is observed. An artist is making something exist by observing it. And his hope for other people is that they will also make it exist by observing it. I call it creative observation. Creative viewing. – William S. Burroughs

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