No! Let social purpose hang itself unhin...
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No! Let social purpose hang itself unhindered! No - I mean, literature can replace, can actually become... Russia! The moment an artist has a social purpose he is merely a huckster
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You’ll be able to walk down the street in London or Paris and when someone asks where you’re from, you can say, ‘Russia! I’m from Russia, you poor bastard, so what do you think of that?!’
For full extended monologue, please see the edition cited here: Stoppard, Tom. The Coast of Utopia: Voyage. Act 2, “Summer 1835.” 2002.
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