"The cumulative effect of the Romantic theory of creativity, as played out in the context of belief in the virtue of the avant-garde, is that while the art world has effectively freed itself from the tyranny of artistic tradition and its historic patronage system, it has ended up inhabiting an autonomous but perceived irrelevance."

-- John Walford

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“I am confident that we will one day end the scourge of modern slavery, because I believe in those committed to this issue.”
“I just like to hop up on the dance floor and do my thing.”
“True beauty could be discovered only by one who mentally complete the incomplete.”

Source : Kakuzo Okakura (2008). “The Book of Tea”, p.95, Applewood Books
“The most we can hope for is strong marriages. Married women vote Republican; single women vote Democratic.”
“The chief secret of comfort lies in not suffering trifles to vex us, and in prudently cultivating our undergrowth of small pleasures, since very few great ones, alas! are let on long leases.”
“What dogs? These are my children, little people with fur who make my heart open a little wider.”
“She cried out into his kiss, her hands clawing his shoulders, adrift now in a pleasure that threatened to consume her. In her sexual lifetime she had never known anything like it. Had never tasted such a dark kiss, one that warned her he had no intention of making allowances for sensual inexperience. He was hungry. Needy. And she was the meal he craved.”
“Liberals believe that crime is inextricably linked with poverty. In reality, most poor people never resort to crime, and some wealthy people commit evil acts to enrich themselves further. Harlem, East Los Angeles, the South side of Chicago are not the poorest communities in the United States. According to a new U.S. Bureau of the Census report, the poorest communities are Shannon County, South Dakota, followed by Starr, Texas, and Tunica, Mississippi. Have you ever heard of these residents rioting to protest their living conditions?”

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