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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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Acting is the work of two people - it's only possible when you have the complicity, the help, even the manipulation of…
— Victoria Abril
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I do respect people's faith, but I don't respect their manipulation of that faith in order to create fear and control.
— Javier Bardem
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Politicians, no matter who they are, shouldn't be able to manipulate the public on a single issue and then call an election…
— Jim Bolger
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It's so easy to manipulate an audience, but it's nearly always clear that you are being manipulated. I think even people that…
— John Boorman
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Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When…
— Joyce Brothers
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The Left Elite only pretend to be concerned about what's best for everyone else because it is the most effective way to…
— Tammy Bruce
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I've never tried to manipulate my image.
— Alan Alda
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The principle that human nature, in its psychological aspects, is nothing more than a product of history and given social relations removes…
— Noam Chomsky
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A population weakened and exhausted by battling against so many obstacles - whose needs are never satisfied and desires never fulfilled -…
— Ryszard Kapuscinski
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In an age of computer manipulation, surrealism has become banal, a shadow of its former self.
— Milton Glaser
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My ambition was to bring to bear on medicine a chemical approach. I did that by chemical manipulation of viruses and chemical…
— Jonas Salk
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Gay-Lussac was quick, lively, ingenious and profound, with great activity of mind and great facility of manipulation. I should place him at…
— Humphry Davy
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