"Art is not a luxury, but a necessity."

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Source : Rebecca West (2010). “The Strange Necessity: Essays and Reviews”, p.110, Open Road Media

Rebecca West

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“We must develop a deeper interest and greater understanding of the people we meet here or abroad. Like us, they are passengers on board that mysterious ship called life.”
“As a competitor and an athlete, you love that you get to go back and challenge someone, especially the world champs.”
“Mathematics may, like poetry or music, "promote and sustain a lofty habit of mind."”

Source : G. H. Hardy, C. P. Snow (2012). “A Mathematician's Apology”, p.116, Cambridge University Press
“I went to India, lived, and studied.”
“About a year ago, out of the blue, I just wrote a bunch of songs.”
“Wars are fought by children. Conceived by their mad demonic elders, and fought by boys.”

Source : 1987 Moon Tiger, ch.8.
“Willa?" "Yes" "It's morning and I still love you.”
“The best of men are only men at their very best. Patriarchs, prophets, and apostles, - martyrs, fathers, reformers, puritans, - all are sinners, who need a Savior: holy, useful, honorable in their place - but sinners after all.”

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