"The worst thing that can happen to an artist is to be subsidized by the state. It leads to an intellectual and artistic castration."

-- Mario Vargas Llosa

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“A good use for me is to let me go away with my sewing machine and come back with some really new stuff.”
“A leader can`t move a country that`s not ready. You can`t make the waves, but when you see them coming, you can help direct them.”
“It is hard to think of any work of art of which one can say 'this saved the life of one Jew, one Vietnamese, one Cambodian'. Specific books, perhaps; but as far as one can tell, no paintings or sculptures. The difference between us and the artists of the 1920's is that they they thought such a work of art could be made. Perhaps it was a certain naivete that made them think so. But it is certainly our loss that we cannot.”
“We have so much separation between feeling the emotional and physical side of sex.”
“I'm a hygiene freak. I'm like obsessive-compulsive when it comes to washing your hands.”
“Form a small group. Five or six people, of people who think the way you do, and are willing to meet regularly, every week, and you will be surprised at what imaginative, gutsy thought and action comes out of that synergy. Takes a while, but there's something that every little group like that can do.”

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“Empathy fuels connection; sympathy drives disconnection.”
“The end of a life is always vivifying.”

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