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" Today the function of the artist is to bring imagination to science and science to imagination, where they meet, in the myth. "

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" Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once. "

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" Those of us who were brought up as Christians and have lost our faith have retained the sense of sin without the saving belief in redemption. This poisons our thought and so paralyses us in action. "

" It is a mistake to expect good work from expatriates for it is not what they do that matters but what they are not doing. "

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