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Home Art Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.

Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.

Polly, August 15, 2013

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I don’t believe in art. I believe in artists.

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