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For in Calormen, story-telling (whether the stories are true or made up) is a thing you’re taught, just as English boys and girls are taught essay writing. The difference is that people want to hear the stories, whereas I never heard of
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“a long habit of not thinking a thing WRONG, gives it a superficial appearance of being RIGHT, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defence of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason.”
― Common Sense
― Common Sense
“Of more worth is one honest man to society and in the sight of God, than all the crowned ruffians that ever lived.”
― Common Sense
― Common Sense
“Abstract design is all right—for wallpaper or linoleum. But art is the process of evoking pity and terror. What modern artists do is pseudo-intellectual masturbation. Creative art is intercourse, in which the artist renders emotional his audience.”
― Stranger in a Strange Land
― Stranger in a Strange Land
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