“Art is the process of evoking pity and terror, which is not abstract at all but very human. What the self-styled modern artists are doing is a sort of unemotional pseudointellectual masturbation . . . whereas creative art is more like intercourse, in which the artist must seduce -- render emotional -- his audience, each time.”
― Stranger in a Strange Land
― Stranger in a Strange Land
“Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.”
― Stranger in a Strange Land
― Stranger in a Strange Land
“There is no safety this side of the grave”
― Stranger in a Strange Land
― Stranger in a Strange Land
“Secrecy begets tyranny.”
― Stranger in a Strange Land
― Stranger in a Strange Land
“Thinking doesn't pay. Just makes you discontented with what you see around you.”
― Stranger in a Strange Land
― Stranger in a Strange Land
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