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As Shaffer navigated his creative journey, he began to see art and literature as a means of transcending the limitations of conventional religious dogma.\n\n**The Hidden Insight**\nOn the surface, this quote may seem like a statement of artistic preference. However, upon closer examination, it reveals a profound tension between the need for spiritual connection and the limitations of traditional faith. Shaffer's admission that art and literature serve as his \"surrogate religions\" suggests that he was seeking a deeper sense of meaning and transcendence, but found it in the imperfect, human-made constructs of art and literature rather than in a higher power.\n\n**How to Use This**\nIn today's fast-paced, secular world, Shaffer's quote offers a valuable lesson for creatives and professionals seeking to infuse their work with purpose and passion. By recognizing that art and literature can serve as a substitute for traditional spirituality, we can harness their power to create work that resonates with others on a profound, almost mystical level – and, in doing so, find our own sense of meaning and fulfillment.",{"id":24,"quote_text":25,"author_id":5,"source_id":26,"has_image":18,"author":27,"source":28,"quote_tag":29,"commentary":9},3345937,"I think plays, like books, are endemic. They grow out of the soil of the writer and the place he’s writing about. I think, you just can’t move them about, you know.",6,{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":10,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":9},{},[],{"id":31,"quote_text":32,"author_id":5,"source_id":26,"has_image":18,"author":33,"source":34,"quote_tag":35,"commentary":9},3345932,"You never quite know what’s going to strike your imagination, or something that won’t going to leave you alone, not going to leave alone, and this was one for me.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":10,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":9},{},[],{"id":37,"quote_text":38,"author_id":5,"source_id":26,"has_image":18,"author":39,"source":40,"quote_tag":41,"commentary":9},3345929,"The best of Mozart’s works cannot be even slightly rewritten without diminishment.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":10,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":9},{},[],{"id":43,"quote_text":44,"author_id":5,"source_id":26,"has_image":18,"author":45,"source":46,"quote_tag":47,"commentary":9},3345922,"That’s what his stare has been saying to me all this time: ‘At least I galloped – when did you?",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":10,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":9},{},[],{"id":49,"quote_text":50,"author_id":5,"source_id":26,"has_image":18,"author":51,"source":52,"quote_tag":53,"commentary":9},3345916,"God was singing through this little man to all the world.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":10,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":9},{},[],{"id":55,"quote_text":56,"author_id":5,"source_id":26,"has_image":18,"author":57,"source":58,"quote_tag":59,"commentary":9},3345913,"What did I expect of him? Very little, I promise you. One more dented little face. One more adolescent freak. The usual unusual. One great thing about being in the adjustment business: you’re never short of customers.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":10,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":9},{},[],{"id":61,"quote_text":62,"author_id":5,"source_id":26,"has_image":18,"author":63,"source":64,"quote_tag":65,"commentary":9},3345906,"All my wife has ever taken from the Mediterranean – from that whole vast intuitive culture – are four bottles of Chianti to make into lamps, and two china condiment donkeys labelled Sally and Peppy.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":10,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":9},{},[],{"id":67,"quote_text":68,"author_id":5,"source_id":26,"has_image":18,"author":69,"source":70,"quote_tag":71,"commentary":9},3345888,"I looked on astounded as from his ordinary life he made his art. We were both ordinary men, he and I. Yet from the ordinary he created Legends – and I from Legends created only the ordinary!",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":10,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":9},{},[],{"id":73,"quote_text":74,"author_id":5,"source_id":26,"has_image":18,"author":75,"source":76,"quote_tag":77,"commentary":9},3345877,"A child is born into a world of phenomena all equal in their power to enslave. It sniffs – it sucks – it strokes its eyes over the whole uncomfortable range. Suddenly one strikes. Why? Moments snap together like magnets, forging a chain of shackles.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":10,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":9},{},[],{"currentPage":79,"totalPages":80,"totalItems":8,"itemsPerPage":81},1,9,10]