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Cold War

2017-10-08 · 2,536 views · license: CC BY-NC 2.0

Cold War — pen and ink drawing by Daniel Ari Friedman. "It's true that things are beautiful when they work. Art is function." – Giannina Braschi "Let us not commit ourselves t
Cold War — pen and ink drawing

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"It's true that things are beautiful when they work. Art is function." – Giannina Braschi

"Let us not commit ourselves to the absurd and senseless dogma that the color of the skin shall be the basis of suffrage, the talisman of liberty." – James A. Garfield, Oration at Ravenna, Ohio (4 July 1865).

"A fairytale, like a butterfly or a bee, helps itself on all sides, sips at every wholesome flower, and spoils not one. The true fairytale is, to my mind, very like the sonata. We all know that a sonata means something; and where there is the faculty of talking with suitable vagueness, and choosing metaphor sufficiently loose, mind may approach mind, in the interpretation of a sonata, with the…

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