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Quote by Chinua Achebe
Art is mans constant effort to create for himself a different orde

Art is mans constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him. – Chinua Achebe

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But I liked Yeats! That wild Irishman. I really loved his love of language, his flow. His chaotic ideas seemed to me just the right thing for a poet. Passion! He was always on the right side. He may be wrongheaded, but his heart was always on the right side. He wrote beautiful poetry. – Chinua Achebe

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Poetry
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Chinua Achebe
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A functioning, robust democracy requires a healthy educated, participatory followership, and an educated, morally grounded leadership. – Chinua Achebe

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Leadership
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…a bourgeois barrenness… depressingly alien from that dainty boudoir atmosphere of the artist-life she knew. – Israel Zangwill, Dreamers of the Ghetto, “From a Mattress Grave,” 1897

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The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality. – T.S. Eliot, Tradition and the Individual Talent, 1919

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No heirloom of humankind captures the past as do art and language. – Theodore Bikel

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A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession. – Albert Camus

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Its better to keep your mouth shut and give the impression that youre stupid than to open it and remove all doubt. – Rami Belson

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These days, newish art can be priced between $10,000 and $25,000. When I tell artists that a new painting by a newish artist should go for around $1,200, they look at me like Im a flesh-eating virus. – Jerry Saltz

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As a man can drink water from any side of a full tank, so the skilled theologian can wrest from any scripture that which will serve his purpose. – Bhagavad Gita

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To overcome a fear, heres all you have to do: realize the fear is there, and do the action you fear anyway. – Peter McWilliams

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