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An anaesthetic is a poet-killer.
— Lewis Hyde
When we are moved by art we are grateful that the artist lived, grateful that he labored in the service of his gifts.
— Lewis Hyde
To speak of happiness is to create happiness.
— Marty Rubin
I think I have a duty as a recovering guy to help, to make my knowledge of what I went through accessible.
— Charlie Sheen
Every human perfection is allied to a defect into which it threatens to pass, but it is also true that every defect is allied to a perfection.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
We forgive when we give up attachment to our wounds.
— Lewis Hyde
The spirit of an artist's gifts can wake our own.
— Lewis Hyde "The Gift"
A gift that cannot be given away ceases to be a gift. The spirit of a gift is kept alive by its constant donation.
— Lewis Hyde
The more we allow such commodity art to define and control our gifts, the less gifted we will become, as individuals and as a society. The
— Lewis Hyde
Irony has only emergency use. Carried over time it is the voice of the trapped who have come to enjoy their cage.
— Lewis Hyde
True citizens are not the audience of their government, nor its consumers; they are its makers.
— Lewis Hyde
One day, I want to get rich enough so that every time I walk into a room I can release a dozen doves.
— Daniel Tosh
(Of Marilyn Monroe) She was good at being inarticulately abstracted for the same reason that midgets are good at being short
— Clive James
People can smile even when terrified.
— NisiOisiN