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Elizabeth Gilbert _ Big Magic: Creative Living
Human artistic expression is blessedly, refreshingly nonessential. That's exactly why I love it so much. {...} The fact that I get to spend my life making objectively useless things means {...} I am not exclusively chained to the grind of mere survival. It means we still have space left in our civilization for the luxuries of imagination and beauty and emotion - and even total frivilousness.Pure creativity is magnificent expressly because it is the opposite of everything else in life that's essential or inescapable {food, shelter, medicine {...}}. Pure creativity is something better than necessity; it's a gift. It's the frosting.
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