The nervous system of any age or nation is its creative workers, its a…

Tennessee Williams
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The nervous system of any age or nation is its creative workers, its artists. And if that nervous system is profoundly disturbed by its environment, the work it produces will inescapably reflect the disturbances, sometimes obliquely and sometimes with violent directness. ✨ Tennessee Williams, John S. Bak (2009). New Selected Essays: Where I Live, p.112, New Directions Publishing
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