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- The hard truth is that what may be acceptable in elite culture may not be acceptable in mass culture, that tastes which pose only innocent…
- Most men experience getting older with regret, apprehension. But most women experience it even more painfully: with shame. Aging is a man's destiny, something that…
- Everyone who is born holds dual citizenship, in the kingdom of the well and in the kingdom of the sick. Although we all prefer to…
- [T]he visibility of styles is itself a product of historical consciousness. ... The very notion of "style" needs to be approached historically. Awareness of style…
- I don't write easily or rapidly. My first draft usually has only a few elements worth keeping. I have to find what those are and…
- A photograph is not only an image (as a painting is an image), an interpretation of the real; it is also a trace, something directly…
- In contrast to the written account-which, depending on its complexity of thought, reference, and vocabulary, is pitched at a larger or smaller readership-a photograph has…
- Art is not only about something; it is something. A work of art is a thing in the world, not just a text or commentary…
- A great writer has all 4 - but you can still be a good writer with only 1 and 2.
- The only story that seems worth writing is a cry, a shot, a scream. A story should break the reader's heart.
- Books are not only the arbitrary sum of our dreams, and our memory. They also give us the model of self-transcende nce.
- The camera can be lenient; it is can also expert at being cruel. But its cruelty only produces another kind of beauty, according to the…
- Because each photograph is only a fragment, its moral and emotional weight depends on where it is inserted. A photograph changes according to the context…
- Self-exposure is commendable in art only when it is of a quality and complexity that allows other people to learn about themselves from it.
- Norman Mailer in his writings is ultimately more concerned with success than with danger; danger is only a means to success.
- Al forms of consensus about ''great'' books and ''perennial'' problems, once stabilized, tend to deteriorate eventually into something philistine. The real life of the mind…
- The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
- The only ideals allowed are healthy ones - those everyone may aspire to, or comfortably imagine oneself possessing.
- And what do I mean by the word 'perfection'? That I shall not try to explain but only say, 'Perfection makes me laugh.' Not cynically,…
- Surrealism can only deliver a reactionary judgment; can make out of history only an accumulation of oddities, a joke, a death trip.
- The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
- For those who live neither with religious consolations about death nor with a sense of death (or of anything else) as natural, death is the…
- The truth is always something that is told, not something that is known. If there were no speaking or writing, there would be no truth…
- It is not altogether wrong to say that there is no such thing as a bad photograph - only less interesting, less relevant, less mysterious…
- Surrealism is a bourgeois disaffection; that its militants thought it universal is only one of the signs that it is typically bourgeois.
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