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Often when she liked a picture she found that she was liking some part of herself, some part of her that was in accord with the picture

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It is the duty of every generation of writers and artists to find fresh ways of expressing the habitual circumstances of the human condition. To serve...more

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Why should literature be easy? Sometimes you can do what you want to do in a simple, direct way that is absolutely right. Sometimes you can't. Reading...more

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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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Art is enchantment and artists have the right of spells. ... The success of later Shakespeare is the success of spells, where every element, however u...more

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Long looking at paintings is equivalent to being dropped into a foreign city, where gradually, out of desire and despair, a few key words, then a litt...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