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It was in the air, or so it seemed to Kiki, this hatred of women and their bodies- it seeped in with…
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A writer's duty is to register what it is like for him or her to be in the world.
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Protect the time and space in which you write. Keep everybody away from it, even the people who are most important to…
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Our children will be born of our actions. Our accidents will become their destinies. Oh, the actions will remain. It is a…
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But it makes an immigrant laugh to hear the fears of the nationalist, scared of infection, penetration, miscegenation, when this is small…
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Most of the cruelty in the world is just misplaced energy.
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Don’t romanticise your ‘vocation’. You can either write good sentences or you can’t. There is no ‘writer’s lifestyle’. All that matters is…
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Sometimes I think my whole professional life has been based on this hunch I had, early on, that many people feel just…
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I remember so clearly, in the early days, if I had to do a piece of press, they'd phone for me and…
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It's gotten to a point where everybody is concerned about their rights and nobody is concerned about their duties.
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Work on a computer that is disconnected from the internet.
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I have an ambition to write a great book, but that's really a competition with myself. I've noticed that a lot of…
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If you try to please audiences, uncritically accepting their tastes, it can only mean that you have no respect for them: that…
— Andrei Tarkovsky
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I was indeed a snob, if you agree with this definition: 'A person who believes that their tastes in a particular area…
— Roger Ebert
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Our dangers, as it seems to me, are not from the outrageous but from the conforming; not from those who rarely and…
— Learned Hand
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Record labels, which used to have complete control, are essentially irrelevant. The process of a band exposing itself to the world is…
— Steve Albini
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. . . in America, we have achieved the Orwellian prediction - enslaved, the people have been programmed to love their bondage…
— Gerry Spence
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Pop music is a fashion, and fashions come and go. The public retires you as their tastes change.
— Cliff Martinez
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Older audiences are hard to win over. They're very specific in their tastes and critical of new music.
— Melanie Fiona
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Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.
— George Bernard Shaw
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I love reading another reader’s list of favorites. Even when I find I do not share their tastes or predilections, I am…
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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Last year, when Zora was a freshman, sophomores had seemed altogether a different kind of human: so very definite in their tastes…
— Zadie Smith
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The mass of mankind are evidently slavish in their tastes, preferring a life suitable to beasts
— Aristotle
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