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Life Is Short ? Art Is Shorter: In Praise of Brevity Life Is Short ? Art Is Shorter: In Praise of Brevity by David Shields
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“We are all getting tired of the Village Explainers. Explanations don’t seem to be explaining very much anymore. Authoritative accounts have a way of looking like official lies, which in their solemnity start to sound funny.”
― David Shields, Life Is Short ? Art Is Shorter: In Praise of Brevity
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