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Roughly there are three separate ways in which we can fight for what we believe, and the way we fight depends upon the
Nov 07,2020
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Roughly there are three separate ways in which we can fight for what we believe, and the way we fight depends upon the situation in which we find ourselves. The ways of the gun and the emergency editorial committee are usually short-lived. In a way, of course, there is always an emergency. Have my political comrades ever lived through anything else? But if a man is forced or chooses to meet continually the direct demands of one emergency after another, he ceases to be primarily an artist. It is not shameful to cease to be an artist – such an idea only comes from the melancholy of romanticism. When the English Hogarth said that he would rather rid London of cruelty than paint the Sistine chapel, he was making a more than reasonable choice.
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