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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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It is not difficult to deceive the first time, for the deceived possesses no antibodies; unvaccinated by suspicion, she overlooks lateness, accepts absurd excuses, permits the flimsiest patching to repair great rents in the quotidian. – John Updike

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Honesty
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Dreams come true without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them. – John Updike

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Telling lies is a fault in a boy, an art in a lover, an accomplishment in a bachelor, and second-nature in a married man. – Helen Rowland

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The artist one day falls through a hole in the brambles, and from that moment he is following the dark rapids of an underground river which may sometimes flow so near to the surface that the laughing picnic parties are heard above. – Cyril Connolly

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Wolfgang Tillmans stunning large-scale pictures, being shown for the first time, were so offhand I failed to see them as art. – Jerry Saltz

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Celebrity doesnt have anything to do with art or craft. Its about being rich and thinking that youre better than everybody else. – Joseph Gordon-Levitt

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I found music to be the therapy of choice. – David Byrne

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In science fiction, you can also test out your own realities. – Theodore Sturgeon

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