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Vivian Gornick has 10 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Writing enters into us when it gives us information about ourselves we are in need of *at the time that we are…
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Being a housewife is an illegitimate profession... The choice to serve and be protected and plan towards being a family-maker is a…
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Every work [of literature] has both a situation and a story. The situation is the context or circumstance, sometimes the plot; the…
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A serious life, by definition, is a life one reflects on, a life one tries to make sense of and bear witness…
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What Independence Has Come to Mean to Me: The Pain of Solitude. The Pleasure of Self-Knowledge
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You are the instrument of your own illumination.
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Adorable in her not-very-bright submissiveness, charming in her childlike delight in shiny floors, even forgivable in her spiteful competition for the whitest,…
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The memoirist, like the poet and the novelist, must engage the world, because engagement makes experience, experience makes wisdom, and finally it's…
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What happened to the writer is not what matters; what matters is the large sense that the writer is able to make…
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Before I knew that I was Jewish or a girl I knew that I was a member of the workingclass. At a…
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Every work of art is an uncommitted crime.
— Theodor Adorno
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In our day the conventional element in literature is elaborately disguised by a law of copyright pretending that every work of art…
— Northrop Frye
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Every fact and every work exercises a fresh persuasion over every age and every new species of man. History always enunciates new…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Perpetual modernism is the measure of merit in every work of art.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Every work of art which really moves us is in some degree a revelation: it changes us.
— Lawren Harris
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Faults and defects every work of man must have.
— Samuel Johnson
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Almost every work of art is an analogy. When I make a representation of something, this too is an analogy to what…
— Gerhard Richter
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There may never be anything new to say, but there is always a new way to say it, and since, in art,…
— Flannery O'Connor
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Every work of art is the child of its age and, in many cases, the mother of our emotions. It follows that…
— Wassily Kandinsky
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Mystery is the essential element of every work of art.
— Luis Bunuel
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Every work has the bad side, and people will be mean to you, and when you're young, you don't know how to…
— Adriana Lima
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Every work of Genius is tinctured by the feelings, and often originates in the events of times.
— Isaac D'Israeli
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