"Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience."

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Source : Rebecca West (1957). “The Court and the Castle: Some Treatments of a Recurrent Theme /$Rebecca West”

Rebecca West

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“I wanted to be videotaped.”
“For President Donald Trump, questions about transparency start with his taxes, and why he's breaking with tradition and not releasing his returns.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“Commerce is a form of warfare.”
“I had some short struggle in my mind whether I should resign my lover or my liberty, but this lasted not long. I found myself as free as air and could not bear the thought of putting myself in any man's power for life only from a present capricious inclination.”

Source : Sarah Fielding, Jane Collier (fl. 1753) (1754). “The cry: a new dramatic fable : in two volumes”, p.80
“Goethe in Weimar sleeps, and Greece, Long since, saw Byron 's struggle cease.”
“I used to go to Saks, I would go to Bergdorf, I would go to Barneys, I would go to thrift stores in SoHo.”
“When I got married, my mother was very surprised. She said: 'What on earth is going on? I thought you were gay?”

Source : "He'll turn his hand to anything". Interview with Kate Kellaway, www.theguardian.com. December 7, 2002.
“My neck is too arthritic to snap around. The big shift in my perspective that happened in the writing process, however, was the paramount importance of the "West" epitomized by Cincinnati.”

Source : Interview with Bob Morris, bobmorris.biz. December 17, 2012.

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