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What art offers is space - a certain breathing room for the spirit.

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Professionalism in art has this difficulty: To be professional is to be dependable, to be dependable is to be predictable, and predictability is esthe...more

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The study of literature threatens to become a kind of paleontology of failure, and criticism a supercilious psychoanalysis of authors.

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There is no doubt that I have lots of words inside me; but at moments, like rush-hour traffic at the mouth of a tunnel, they jam.

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On the single strand of wire strung to bring our house electricity, grackles and starlings neatly punctuated an invisible sentence.

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My first thought, as a child, was that the artist brings something into the world that didn't exist before, and that he does it without destroying som...more

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He lost his appetite for reading. He was afraid of being overwhelmed again. In mystery novels people died like dolls being discarded; in science ficti...more