The arts are weapons of understanding and weapons of happiness. — Quoted

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“The arts are weapons of understanding and weapons of happiness.”

Richard Eyre · Happiness

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I envy the happiness of others... I envy the sense of belonging... I seem always to be remaking myself.

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A place makes a deep impression on you when you're young. It lives with you. It's like your childhood. It fertilises the imagination.

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I believe there is a relationship between having an interest in the arts and the behaviour of society as a whole. Some politicians find it difficult that the arts is a weapon of happiness... Politics is often about deprivation rather than the opening up of ideas and nourishing creative endeavour.

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Naming a baby is an act of poetry, for many people the only creative moment of their lives.

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