Do stuff. be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration's shove or society's kiss on your forehead. Pay attention. It's all about paying attention. attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. stay eager.


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Authoritarian political ideologies have a vested interest in promoting fear, a sense of the imminenc...
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This city is neither a jungle nor the moon. . . . In long shot: a cosmic smudge, a conglomerate of b...
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The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of subjec...
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It's fantastic knowing you're going to die; it really makes having priorities and trying to follow t...
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A photograph is not only an image (as a painting is an image), an interpretation of the real; it is ...
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The fact that illness is associated with the poor --who are, from the perspective of the privileged,...
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The Way We Live Now
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Of course the movies are going to be the more visible, more high profile, for the simple reason that...
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In the final analysis, ''style'' is art. And art is nothing more or less than various modes of styli...
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He who despises himself esteems himself as a self-despiser.
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With more people, there are more voices to tune out.
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Interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art.
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Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its "vi...
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Al forms of consensus about ''great'' books and ''perennial'' problems, once stabilized, tend to det...
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The aestheticizing tendency of photography is such that the medium which conveys distress ends by ne...
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It seems positively unnatural to travel without taking a camera along... The very activity of taking...
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But maybe they were barbarians. Maybe this is what most barbarians look like. They look like everybo...
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Dissimulation, secretiveness, appear a necessity to the melancholic. He has complex, often veiled re...
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It hurts to love. It's like giving yourself to be flayed and knowing that at any moment the other pe...
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One feature of the usual script for plague: the disease invariably comes from somewhere else. The na...
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The basic unit for contemporary art is not the idea, but the analysis of and extension of sensations...
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[Perhaps this is a good thing. And potentially dangerous for a novelist. The dangers are obvious. A ...
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Guns have metamorphosed into cameras in this earnest comedy, the ecology safari, because nature has ...
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The taste for quotations (and for the juxtaposition of incongruous quotations) is a Surrealist taste...
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Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
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Ours is a culture based on excess, on overproduction; the result is a steady loss of sharpness in ou...
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What is most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women...
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Perversity is the muse of modern literature
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What pornographic literature does is precisely to drive a wedge between one's existence as a sexual ...
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It's a pleasure to share one's memories. Everything remembered is dear, endearing, touching, preciou...
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My idea of a writer: someone interested in 'everything,'
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I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them
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The quality of American life is an insult to the possibilities of human growth. . . the pollution of...
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Most people in this society who aren't actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
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A great private collection is a material concentrate that continually stimulates, that overexcites. ...
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