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Mean Girls Bite Because They Are Wounded

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“Tyrants always fear art because tyrants  want to mystify while art tends to clarify.  The good artist is a vehicle of truth.” Iris Murdoch Both art and philosophy constantly re-create themselves by returning  to the deep and obvious and ordinary things of human existence  and making there a place for cool speech and wit  and serious unforced reflection.  Long may this central area remain to us,  the homeland of freedom and of art.  The great artist, like the great saint,  calms us by a kind of unassuming simple lucidity,  he speaks with the voice that we hear in  Homer and in Shakespeare and in the Gospels.  This is the human language of which, whenever we write,  as artists or as word-users of any other kind,  we should endeavour to be worthy. Frida's Law of Attraction Rivers Run, Water Falls and Sun Rises This Magic Moon is pure beauty, no sliver, cres...