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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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I was at a party in 1989 and Ian McEwan, Martin Amis and Salman Rushdie were sitting on a sofa wondering where the next generation of great British wr...more

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Every day in my consultancy, I meet men and women who are out of their minds. That is, they have not the slightest idea who they really are or what it...more

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Examine this statement: ‘A woman cannot be a poet.’ Dr Samuel Johnson (Englishman 1709-84 Occupation: Language Fixer and Big Mouth.) What then shall I...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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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

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What are the unreal things but the passion that once burned one like a fire? What are the incredible things but the things that one has faithfully bel...more

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...to create was a fundament, to appreciate, a supplement. Once created, the creature was separate from the creator, and needed no seconding to fully ...more