"Art is the expression of the conviction that we can have a rational relationship with the world and each other. It isn't the faith or hope that we can, it is the demonstration that we can."

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“As Shakespeare himself knew, the peace, the reconciliation that he created on the stage would not last an hour on the street.”

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