"Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy but after a war it seems more like astrology."
-Rebecca West
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"Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience.“
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"Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul."
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"There is no logical reason why the camel of great art should pass through the needle of mob intelligence."
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"Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television."
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"I don't want life to imitate art. I want life to be art."
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"Well, Art is Art, isn't it? Still, on the other hand, water is water. And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now you tell me what you know."
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"An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have."
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