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Quotation of the day for August 22, 2011

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Quotation of the Day for August 22, 2011



"Anyone who understood art knew that it never achieved what its makers dreamed for it. Art always fell short, and the artist, far from rescuing something from the disaster of life, was thereby condemned to be a double failure."

- Julian Barnes, from his short story Sleeping with John Updike.

Submitted by: Mike Krawchuk
Aug. 18, 2011

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