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“Decision is a sharp knife that cuts clean and straight; indecision, a dull one that hacks and tears and leaves ragged edges behind it.”
― Gordon Graham

“So, at any rate, it appears. But appearance is not reality.”
― Gordon Graham, Eight Theories of Ethics

“Nevertheless, though ‘good’ does not mean ‘pleasurable’, it still makes sense to claim that art is to be valued chiefly because of the pleasure or enjoyment it gives. It is this, I think, rather than Hume's thesis, that most people who believe there is a connection between art and enjoyment mean to assert.”
― L. Gordon Graham, Philosophy of the Arts: An Introduction to Aesthetics