“Art makes nothing happen in a way that makes something happen.”
Source: How to Be Both
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“That's the art of leadership. To make sure that what shouldn't happen, doesn't happen.”
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2000s
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“He waited, but nothing happened.
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Context: What happens when a new work of art is created, is something that happens simultaneously to all the works of art which preceded it. The existing monuments form an ideal order among themselves, which is modified by the introduction of the new (the really new) work of art among them. The existing order is complete before the new work arrives; for order to persist after the supervention of novelty, the whole existing order must be, if ever so slightly, altered; and so the relations, proportions, values of each work of art toward the whole are readjusted; and this is conformity between the old and the new.
“Nonintervention does not mean that nothing happens. It means that something else happens.”
Source: The Quotable Hitchens from Alcohol to Zionism: The Very Best of Christopher Hitchens
“What you make happen for others, God makes happen for you.”
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