It’s easy to say something is good when it has earned millions. It’s easy to say it’s good when the small group of admirers has burgeoned to a tribe of followers and then into a movement. It’s easy to say it is genius when it has been sold at Christie’s for millions. This usually happens long after the person who toiled to be and to make is dead. Why? Why is it that people have so much trouble saying that an activity or a work is valuable before it has earned any money? I don’t want to discuss whether money is inherently equal to pleasure or genius or excellence because I obviously don’t believe it is, but what is it that keeps us from saying it? I know what it is, and that is what I felt in her as I left her at the Ritz today. I knew, as she was driven away from me and the City of Lights in a black Mercedes, that I was daring to live and that I would never thrive near her. Why? Because she, like so many people, is too afraid to love and encourage something the posterity has not yet lauded and approved [...]
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