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There was no point in doing art if you were going to be second-rate.

~ Christopher Bram

Christopher Bram Art Gay Second Rate Writers

When distinction of any kind, even intellectual distinction, is somehow resented as a betrayal of the American spirit of equal opportunity for all, the result must be just this terror of individualistic impulses setting us apart, either above or below our neighbours; just this determination to obey without questioning and to subscribe with passion to the conventions and traditions. The dilemma becomes a very real one: How can this sense of democratic equality be made compatible with respect for exceptional personalities or great minds? How can democracy, as we understand it today, with its iron repression of the free spirit, its monotonous standardisation of everything, learn to cherish an intellectual aristocracy without which any nation runs the risk of becoming a civilisation of the commonplace and the second-rate?

~ Harold Edmund Stearns

Harold Edmund Stearns America Civilization Conventions Distinction Equality Individualism Intellectualism Lost Generation Repression Second Rate Standardisation Traditions
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