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Riding The Dragon
America is immune to all appeals. Her people do not understand the language of the poet.
— Henry Miller
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“Art has something to do with the achievement of stillness in the midst of chaos….Art has something to do with an arrest of attention in the midst of distraction.”
— Saul Bellow
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‘Original art is never created in the safe middle ground, but always at the edge. Originality is dangerous. It challenges, questions, overturns assumptions, unsettles moral codes, disrespects sacred cows or other such entities…Art is not entertainment. At its very best, it’s a revolution.’
— Salman Rushdie
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Human beings once believed in the divine rights of kings. Capitalists now believe in the (almost) divine right of markets.
— R. H. Tawney
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I was taken back to the beginning of creation and there experienced human evolution in the context of a larger cosmic process….I began to remember a romance from deep within my history.
I was a Cosmic Being being loved by another Cosmic Being.
— Christopher Bache
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