#avoids

Widespread state control over art and culture has left no room for freedom of expression in the country. For more than 60 years, anyone with a dissenting opinion has been suppressed. Chinese art is merely a product: it avoids any meaningful engagement. There is no larger context. Its only purpose is to charm viewers with its ambiguity. ↗

— Ai Weiwei

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A poet clings to his own tradition and avoids internationalism. ↗

— Salvatore Quasimodo

#clings #his #internationalism #own #poet

An intellectual is someone who avoids the mundane by lowering his handicap. ↗

— Richard Reeves

#handicap #his #intellectual #lowering #mundane

The girl with a future avoids a man with a past. ↗

— Evan Esar

#future #girl #man #past

The correction of silence is what kills; when you know you have transgressed, and your friend says nothing, and avoids your eye. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

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Gossip, even when it avoids the sexual, bears around it a faint flavor of the erotic. ↗

— Patricia Meyer Spacks

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It is true that I have had heartache and tragedy in my life. These are things none of us avoids. Suffering is the price of being alive. ↗

— Judy Collins

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A revolution is interesting insofar as it avoids like the plague the plague it promised to heal. ↗

— Daniel Berrigan

#heal #insofar #interesting #like #plague