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“Art - and all stories are art, even the ones about real people - is about what it does to you.”
― Yumi and the Nightmare Painter
― Yumi and the Nightmare Painter
“There is nothing on earth like the love of a child that passes unnoticed in the dark because she has no hope: her love is submissive, so much a servant's love, passionate and lying in wait, in a way that the avid yet unconsciously demanding love of a grown woman can never be”
― Letter from an Unknown Woman and Other Stories
― Letter from an Unknown Woman and Other Stories
“They did nothing—other than subjecting us to complete nothingness. For, as is well known, nothing on earth puts more pressure on the human mind than nothing.”
― Chess Story
― Chess Story
“Never let something trivial, like a sense of humor, get in the way of a good joke.”
― Yumi and the Nightmare Painter
― Yumi and the Nightmare Painter
“But then again, there’s nothing intrinsically valuable about any kind of art. That’s not me complaining or making light. It’s one of the most wonderful aspects to art—the fact that people decide what is beautiful. We don’t get to decide what is food and what is not. (Yes, exceptions exist. Don’t be pedantic. When you pass those marbles, we’re all going to laugh.) But we absolutely get to decide what counts as art. If Yumi’s people wanted to declare that rock arrangements surpassed painting or sculpture as an artistic creation…well, I personally found it fascinating. The spirits agreed.”
― Yumi and the Nightmare Painter
― Yumi and the Nightmare Painter
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