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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 and John Grisham…
- Some words have to be explicitly uttered, Lenore. Only by actually uttering certain words does one really DO what one SAYS. 'Love' is one of…
- Postmodern irony and cynicism's become an end in itself, a measure of hip sophistication and literary savvy. Few artists dare to try to talk about…
- It's probably hard to feel any sort of Romantic spiritual connection to nature when you have to make your living from it.
- The point is that petty, frustrating crap like this is exactly where the work of choosing comes in. Because the traffic jams and crowded aisles…
- (I'm not putting any of this well. I am not and never have been an intellectual. I am not articulate, and the subjects that I…
- I was never the sort of child who believed in "monsters under the bed" or vampires, or who needed a night-light in his bedroom; on…
- This is so American, man: either make something your God and cosmos and then worship it, or else kill it.
- And make no mistake: irony tyrannizes us. The reason why our pervasive cultural irony is at once so powerful and so unsatisfying is that an…
- To make someone an icon is to make him an abstraction, and abstractions are incapable of vital communication with living people.
- Psychotics, say what you want about them, tend to make the first move.
- Hear this or not, as you will. Learn it now, or later -- the world has time. Routine, repetition, tedium, monotony, ephemeracy, inconsequence, abstraction, disorder,…
- K--: 'When they say "I am my own person," "I do not need a man," "I am responsible for my own sexuality," they are actually…
- I miss everyone. I can remember being young and feeling a thing and identifying it as homesickness, and then thinking well now that’s odd, isn’t…
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