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The riskiness of Art, the reason why it affects us, is not the riskiness of its subject matter, it is the risk of creating a new way of seeing, a new ...more

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I thought no one was talking to me and the others thought I wasn't talking to them.

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I never wanted to find my birth parents - if one set of parents felt like a misfortune, two sets would be self-destructive...I had no idea that you co...more

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Things are continually beginning again; they’re never really resolved, you know. They are only resolved temporarily. We live in a society that peddles...more

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The truth is that love smashes into your life like an ice floe, and even if your heart is built like the Titanic you go down.

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Language is a finding-place not a hiding place.

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He needed some sort of membrane between himself and experience, which, for him, became language.(Jeanette Winterson on T.S.Eliot)

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Eating words and listening to them rumbling in the gut is how a writer learns the acid and alkali of language. It is a process at the same time physic...more

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But if what can exist does exist, is memory invention or is invention memory?

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And myself? Observe me. There is something to be gained from my surface uses, and perhaps a little more from my lower depths, but my very bottom? That...more

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Time: Change experienced and observed. Time measured by the angle of the turning earth as it rotates through its axis. The earth turning slowly on its...more

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I think therefore I am. Does that mean 'I feel therefore I'm not'? But only through feeling can I get at thinking.

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Saddest of all are the woman who were brought up to believe that self-sacrifice is the highest female virtue.

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Progress is not one of those floating comparatives, so beloved of our friends in advertising, we need a context, a perspective. What are we better tha...more

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Look up. This is the season of shooting stars. Light, two thousand years old, still dazzling. Let me see your face. Your face lit up by twenty centuri...more