I have made more friends for American culture than the State Department. Certainly I have made fewer enemies, but that isn't very difficult.
When any creativity becomes useful, it is sucked into the vortex of commercialism, and when a thing becomes commercial, it becomes the enemy of man.
The famous are balloons far up in the sky, to be envied for their quiet freedom or shot down as enemies.
The enemy is within, and within stays within, and we can't get out of within.
Tragedy enlightens - and it must, in that it points the heroic finger at the enemy of man's freedom. The thrust for freedom is the quality in tragedy which exalts. The revolutionary questioning of the stable environment is what terrifies.
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