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The sinews of art and literature, like those of war, are money. -

The sinews of art and literature, like those of war, are money. – Samuel Butler

Other quotes by Samuel Butler

To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead. – Samuel Butler

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Death
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All philosophies, if you ride them home, are nonsense, but some are greater nonsense than others. – Samuel Butler

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Home
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Lying has a kind of respect and reverence with it. We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him. – Samuel Butler

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respect
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Other Quotes from
Art
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The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with. – Golda Meir

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Art

As I grew older, I realized that it was much better to insist on the genuine forms of nature, for simplicity is the greatest adornment of art. – Albrecht Durer

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Art

Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others. – Jonathan Swift

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Art

I am trying to make art that relates to the deepest and most mythic concerns of human kind and I believe that, at this moment of history, feminism is humanism. – Judy Chicago

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Art

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Before we can pray, “Lord, Thy Kingdom come,” we must be willing to pray, “My Kingdom go.” – Alan Redpath

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Pakistan not only means freedom and independence but the Muslim Ideology which has to be preserved, which has come to us as a precious gift and treasure and which, we hope other will share with us. – Muhammad Ali Jinnah

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Freedom

Although every man believes that his decisions and resolutions involve the most multifarious factors, in reality they are mere oscillation between flight and longing. – Herman Broch

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I am able to follow my own death step by step. Now I move softly towards the end. – Pope John XXIII

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Death