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Calls for the simplification of abstract or allusive art have always come from governments suspicious of artists themselves. This is why totalitarian…
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I would rather be nuts than unattractive.
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There is something insouciant and boyish about the sockless ankle in summer.
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What makes a publisher decide to market a book to a particular audience is not the subject matter but the style.
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The only thing that makes a book YA is that it is about teenagers, and it is written in a very conventional,…
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The YA category is an entirely new one, and seems to have more to do with readability than with age group or…
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Increasingly, to dismiss any popular artistic style is seen as the worst kind of snobbery. And snobbery, it goes without saying, is…
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Indeed, the whole point of the man bun, I have surmised, is to assert a high proficiency at yoga. There are no…
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I have argued about the future of fiction with jaded novelists, far-seeing postmodernists, technologists, television critics. The argument that future generations will…
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Here is a fundamental conflict in educated society: We are not supposed to value beauty so highly, and yet who can defend…
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Fashion has always been in conflict with convention. Style involves some knowledge of both. But you can pretty much forget these seasonal…
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My son craves picture books about Transformers and Ninja Turtles and the Hulk; they show one fantastic creature smashing or zapping another…
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Thus shall ye think of all this fleeting world: As star at dawn, a bubble in a stream A flash of lightning…
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There is a flickering spark in us all which, if struck at just the right age...can light the rest of our lives,…
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If things do not exist as fixed, independent entities, then how can they die? Our notion of death as the sudden expiration…
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Our senses are woefully limited. Our brains are but tiny candles flickering in an infinity of darkness. Our only wisdom is to…
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