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What art offers is space — a certain breathing room for the

What art offers is space — a certain breathing room for the spirit. – John Updike

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Truth should not be forced it should simply manifest itself, like a woman who has in her privacy reflected and coolly decided to bestow herself upon a certain man. – John Updike

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The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called an education. – John Updike

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Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men. – Friedrich Schiller (1759–1805), Fiesco, translated from German

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A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind. – Eugene Ionesco

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Ability is the art of getting credit for all the home runs somebody else hits. – Casey Stengel

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Wherever the art of medicine is loved, there is also a love of humanity. – Hippocrates

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The reason we have poverty is that we have no imagination. There are a great many people accumulating what they think is vast wealth, but its only money… they dont know how to enjoy it, because they have no imagination. – Alan Watts

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Going to a concert is so overwhelming and the energy is amazing. – Victoria Justice

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I dont think politics has anything to do with left, right, or center. It has to do with trying to do right by people. – Paul Wellstone

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