“Well I believe in the desirability of an optimal society.”
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I still believe that if your aim is to change the world, journalism is a more immediate short-term weapon.
I like pop music. I consider rock 'n' roll to be a branch of pop music.
I was interested by the idea that artists working in a totalitarian dictatorship or tsarist autocracy are secretly and slightly shamefully envied by artists who work in freedom. They have the gratification of intense interest: the authorities want to put them in jail, while there are younger readers for whom what they write is pure oxygen.
Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.