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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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Each stone, each bend cries welcome to him. He identifies with the mountains and the streams, he sees something of his own…
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An economist is someone who sees something that works in practice and wonders if it would work in theory.
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An ethicist is someone who sees something wrong with whatever you have in mind.
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God is like a mirror. The mirror never changes, but everybody who looks at it sees something different.
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When a man sees something desirable, he must reflect on the fact that with time it could come to involve what is…
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My wife Mariana is a good photographer too and, like me, she just picks up a camera and takes a picture when…
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Television is becoming a collage - there are so many channels that you move through them making a collage yourself. In that…
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A travel book is about someone who goes somewhere, travels on the ground, sees something and spends quite a lot of time…
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Wittgenstein once wrote that when the eye sees something beautiful, the hand wants to draw it. I wish I could draw you.
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There's a kind of Ah-ha! Somebody at least for a moment feels about something or sees something the way that I do.…
— David Foster Wallace
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Dysmorphia is when someone looks in the mirror, and sees something else. While I studied my own whatever I was, I decided…
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Worship is a response to greatness. A man does not become a worshipper merely by saying, "Now I shall become a worshipper."…
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