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We will, of course, without hesitation use art to parody, ridicule, debunk, or criticize ideologies.
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One paradox of professional writing is that books written solely for money and/or acclaim will almost never be good enough to garner…
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God, what a ghastly enterprise to be in, though-and what an odd way to achieve success. I'm an exhibitionist who wants to…
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When I say or write something, there are actually a whole lot of different things I am communicating. The propositional content (i.e.,…
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Under fun's new administration, writing fiction becomes a way to go deep inside yourself and illuminate precisely the stuff you don't want…
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Of course, the fact that Dostoevsky can tell a juicy story isn't enough to make him great. If it were, Judith Krantz…
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Some words have to be explicitly uttered, Lenore. Only by actually uttering certain words does one really DO what one SAYS. 'Love'…
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You have a great deal of yourself on the line, writing- your vanity is at stake. You discover a tricky thing about…
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Postmodern irony and cynicism's become an end in itself, a measure of hip sophistication and literary savvy. Few artists dare to try…
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No one can call themselves a writer until he or she has written at least fifty stories.
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Molly Notkin often confides on the phone to Joelle van Dyne about the one tormented love of Nokin's life thus far, an…
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No single, individual moment is in and of itself unendurable.
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Novelist-Citizen of Two Countries Interpreter of his Generation on both Sides of the Sea.
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Scholes is undoubtedly the best midfielder of his generation.
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Barney Kessel was 'Mr. Guitar,' the foremost jazz guitarist of his generation. He had an amazing imagination, his solos were incredible, he…
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With Taipei Tao Lin becomes the most interesting prose stylist of his generation.
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TRIGGER CITY secures Sean Chercover's place as one of the best crime writers of his generation. It grabs you hard on the…
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I wouldn't call myself a modern Shakespeare, but Shakespeare was probably to his generation what I am to mine.
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Let no youth have any anxiety about the upshot of his education, whatever the line of it may be. If he keep…
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Mr. Reagan spent World War II, the global conflict fought and won by his generation, making training films in Hollywood.
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David Cronenberg is the most provocative, original, and consistently excellent North American director of his generation.
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William Dalrymple has superseded Mark Tully as the voice of India… He may well be the greatest travel writer of his generation.
— Robert Twigger
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The young man who joins a political party is a traitor to his generation and to his race.
— Corneliu Zelea Codreanu
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