"What is art is not likely to be decided for decades or longer after the work has been producedand then is often redecidedso we must not think badly if we regard literature as entertainment rather than as transcendent enlightenment."

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Source : 1976 Comment in D L Fitzpatrick (ed) Contemporary Novelists.

Richard Condon

#Art Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Enlightenment Quotes

“All one’s feeling goes into practicing exercises, many of which are set to music. Therefore, somehow dancing with boyfriends doesn’t attract me.”
“Sweet bird that shunn'st the nose of folly, Most musical, most melancholy! Thee, chauntress, oft, the woods among, I woo, to hear thy even-song.”
“You either kiss the future or the past goodbye.”

Source : Song: Weight Of The World
“The Australian backyard was once built for tradesmen and outdoor toilets. As suburbs spread, it became a playground and source of pride...”
“I think people think of Oregon as such a granola, hippie kind of a place.”

Source : "Kaitlin Olson, Tualatin native, stars in 'It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia'". Interview with Jake Ten Pas, www.oregonlive.com. September 15, 2010.
“Hi,' I said, and I hugged her. I missed her more now that I actually had her in my arms than when I hadn't.”
“Great innovators and original thinkers and artists attract the wrath of mediocrities as lightning rods draw the flashes.”

Source : Theodor Reik (1963). “The Need to be Loved”
“It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.”

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