"Beware when you honour an artist.
You are praising danger.
You are holding out your hand
To the dead and unborn
You are counting on what cannot be counted.
The poet's measures serve anarchic joy
The story-teller tells one story: freedom.
Above all beware of honouring women artists.
For the housewife will fill the house with lions
and in with the grandmother
comes bears, wild horses, great horned owls, coyotes."
-Ursula LeGuin
thank you karis!
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Someone really should have called that fact to the attention of everyone Truman Capote knew. Could have saved them all a great deal of misery.
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