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I still believe nonfiction is the most important literature to come out of the second half of the 20th century.
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In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, old people in America had prayed, "Please God, don't let me look poor." In…
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[Aldous Huxley] compared the brain to a 'reducing valve'. In ordinary perception, the senses send an overwhelming flood of information to the…
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If most writers are honest with themselves, this is the difference they want to make: before, they were not noticed; now they…
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The modern notion of art is an essentially religious or magical one in which the artist is viewed as a holy beast…
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There are some people who have the quality of richness and joy in them and they communicate it to everything they touch.…
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If a conservative is a liberal who's been mugged, a liberal is a conservative who's been arrested.
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It is very comforting to believe that leaders who do terrible things are, in fact, mad. That way, all we have to…
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It's about reacting to what you see, hopefully without preconception. You can find pictures anywhere. It's simply a matter of noticing things…
— Elliott Erwitt
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There is even - as with no other game - a fascinating detective literature, a wry commentary on the human comedy, implicit…
— Alistair Cooke
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The human comedy does not attract me enough. I am not entirely of this world. I am from elsewhere, and it is…
— Eugene Ionesco
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As for the world of fashion and celebrity, I have the usual interest in the human comedy, but the problems of depiction…
— David Hockney
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The human comedy is always tragic, but since its ingredients are always the same - dupe, fox, straight, like burlesque skits -…
— Dawn Powell
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America is a wonderful country! I mean it! No honest writer would challenge that statement! The human comedy never runs out of…
— Tom Wolfe
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You can find pictures anywhere. It's simply a matter of noticing things and organizing them. You just have to care about what's…
— Elliott Erwitt
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