Quote by Alice Walker
Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesnt matter. I

Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesnt matter. Im not sure a bad person can write a good book, If art doesnt make us better, then what on earth is it for. – Alice Walker

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We should learn to accept that change is truly the only thing thats going on always, and learn to ride with it and enjoy it. – Alice Walker

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Change
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Im not convinced that women have the education or the sense of their own history enough or that they understand the cruelty of which men are capable and the delight that many men will take in seeing you choose to chain yourself – then they get to say See, you did it yourself. – Alice Walker

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Education
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I can be almost terminally grief-stricken because things are so dire, but at the same time, theres a real lightheartedness about just the recoverability of life, of how things change, how theyre not the same, ever again. – Alice Walker

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Change
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Art
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What an artist is trying to do for people is bring them closer to something, because of course art is about sharing. You wouldnt be an artist unless you wanted to share an experience, a thought. – David Hockney

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Art

Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul. – W. Somerset Maugham

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Art

I think art is inherently nonviolent and it actually occupies your mind with creation rather than destruction. – Anthony Kiedis

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Art

In our life there is a single color, as on an artists palette, which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the color of love. – Marc Chagall

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Art

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I enjoyed working as a model a lot as it let me travel and I got to do some really interesting projects. – Patricia Velasquez

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Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself. – Marcus Tullius Cicero

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When life takes me on a new journey, I simply remember the smile my first ballet recital put on my face and I move forward. – Andrea Thompson

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It seems disingenuous to ask a writer why she, or he, is writing about a violent subject when the world and history are filled with violence. – Joyce Carol Oates

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