The great Japanese film director Akira Kurosawa said that to be an artist means never to avert your eyes. And that's the hardest thing, because we want to flinch. The artist must go into the white hot center of himself, and our impulse when we get there is to look away and avert our eyes. Robert Olen Butler
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  1. And William says, "I lost one son utterly."..."So I've held my tongue. But the truth is you didn't go to war. You went through the motions. But you turned it into graduate school. <span style="margin:15px; display:block"></span>You contrived a comfortable place on the edge of the...
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