CSPAN2 Book TV January 25, 2010
mansion of arts and letters. beauty can be important in the person's life. and people beguiled by the beautiful are less dangerous to others than those sue pressed by the thought of supremacy. if an afternoon of reading poetry has given me a feeling of profound well being, i don't then need to go out into the street and seek satisfaction by strangling prostitutes. [laughter] >> art can be central in a person's life. if the art we create is beautiful enough, will people will so drawn to looking at it that they'll leave behind their quest for power. beauty really is more enjoyable than...
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