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Hortense Calisher: Every art is...

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Every art is a church without communicants, presided over by a parish of the respectable. An artist is born kneeling; he fights to stand. A critic, by nature of the judgment seat, is born sitting.

Source: Herself, Pt. IV, 1972.
-- Hortense Calisher, (Dec 20 1911-2009), US writer; She received an Arts & Letters award in 1967.


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