“Maybe you can make art out of unredeemed pain, but only if you're a genius -- Dostoyevsky perhaps.”
Larry McMurtry (1936) American novelist, essayist, bookseller and screenwriter
“I believe entertainment can aspire to be art, and can become art, but if you set out to make art you're an idiot.”
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