"To be artist, and lover, that is the true goal, the only adequate objective, the divinely destined end for man."

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Source : Bernard Iddings Bell (1947). “A Man Can Live ...”

Bernard Iddings Bell

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“I say what I think, and I stand behind what I say.”
“The way in which these two practices contain each other is that it has always been possible to use the one against the other: to use racism-sexism to prevent universalism from moving too far in the direction of egalitarianism; to use universalism to prevent racism-sexism from moving too far in the direction of a caste system that would inhibit the work force mobility so necessary for the capitalist accumulation process.”
“Sometimes you have to understand that you push ahead, there's going to be a lot of flak, there's going to be a lot of dogs barking, but the wagon train moves ahead.”
“All fiction for me is a kind of magic and trickery, a confidence trick, trying to make people believe something is true that isn't.”
“Perhaps preachers today need to think about the assumptions that are common in their congregation - the plausibilities and comforting assurances - which may in themselves have biblical truth, but can easily become insurance policies waved around as immunity from any kind of serious evaluation of how we are living, whether we are truly following the Lord Jesus in the way he walked, whether we are doing righteousness and justice as God commanded.”

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“The three main political parties all agree the UK deficit is high and needs to be brought down. All agree that it is easier to get a deficit down if you have faster growth, cutting unemployment-related costs and raising revenues.”

Source : "UK growth depends on tax rates that people are prepared to pay" by John Redwood, www.theguardian.com. July 18, 2012.
“One cannot simply decide to write apolitical poetry, in the way one decides to drink lemonade instead of tea, it's far more subliminal than that.”

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“Some visual artworks are made to be talked about more than to be seen, others are made to be seen more than to be talked about. I think I belong in the latter category.”

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