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Patris's avatar

Without discounting the excitement of discovering her writings, Oliver highlights the incredible self-centered selfishness of the “artist”. Which I won’t discount, having witnessed it. Transcendance however is not their sole purview. you find greater truth seated next to a nurse in a children’s ward, with a soldier who realizes he’s killed innocents, in an exhausted but hopeful immigrant. With anyone in a war zone. Individuality delights us and shines, but life humbles us and informs us more deeply.

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Lasita's avatar

I loved the line: "working artists are not trying to help the world go around, but forward".

I read the comments below and feel moved to say that we can be both working artists and people who give to the world through other work.

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