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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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Before people complain of the obscurity of modern poetry, they should first examine their consciences and ask themselves with how many people…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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When we really worship anything, we love not only its clearness but its obscurity. We exult in its very invisibility.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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In the vast cosmical changes, the universal life comes and goes in unknown quantities ... sowing an animalcule here, crumbling a star…
— Victor Hugo
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And also those to whom these commandments were given, might have power to lay the foundation of this church, and to bring…
— Joseph Smith, Jr.
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We are now witnessing, after the slow fermentation of fifty years, a concentration of technical power aimed at the essential determinants of…
— C. D. Darlington
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I think it's important to have had at least a few years of obscurity, where people treat you like everybody else.
— Robert De Niro
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You cannot be buried in obscurity: you are exposed upon a grand theater to the view of the world. If your actions…
— Cyrus the Great
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It is not a question of skimming the surface of the art, it must be probed to its depths, for to seize…
— Jean-Georges Noverre
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