Too many escape into complexity these days. For it is an escape for persons to cry, when this … - Pearl S. Buck

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The process is only a means to an end-creating the painting I want. It doesn't mean anything itself. It's only a way of creating a result.

Pearl S. Buck

Too many escape into complexity these days. For it is an escape for persons to cry, when this question of the equality of peoples is raised in India or in our own South, 'Ah, but the situation is not so simple. '. . . no great stride forward is ever made for the individual or for the human race unless the complex situation is reduced to one simple question and its simple answer.

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