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"It can become an exercise in trying to get the reader to like and admire you instead of an exercise in creative art."
Art
"I think TV promulgates the idea that good art is just art which makes people like and depend on the vehicle that brings them the art."
Art
"I just think that fiction that isn't exploring what it means to be human today isn't art."
Art
"For these cultures, getting rid of the pain without addressing the deeper cause would be like shutting off a fire alarm while the fire's still going."
Cause
"One of the things that makes Wittgenstein a real artist to me is that he realized that no conclusion could be more horrible than solipsism."
Philosophy
"We're not keen on the idea of the story sharing its valence with the reader. But the reader's own life "outside" the story changes the story."
Life
"I often think I can see it in myself and in other young writers, this desperate desire to please coupled with a kind of hostility to the reader."
Desire
"Pleasure becomes a value, a teleological end in itself. It's probably more Western than U.S. per se."
Society
"We're kind of wishing some parents would come back. And of course we're uneasy about the fact that we wish they'd come back - I mean, what's wrong with us?"
Fact
"When people call it that I always get pissed off because I always think depression sounds like you just get like really sad, you get quiet and melancholy and just like sit quietly by the window sighing or just lying around. A state of not caring about anything. A kind of blue kind of peaceful state."
Mental Health
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"The most dangerous thing to the USA population is not North Korea, it is the USA government."
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Personal Development
"Politicians look for interests not people."
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Personal Development
"When men reject reason, they have no means left for dealing with one another - except brute, physical force."
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Personal Development
"Not to dampen any parade, but if one asks if there is a single thing about Mr. Obama's Senate record, or state legislature record, or current program, that could possibly justify his claim to the presidency one gets ... what? Not much. Similarly lightweight unqualified 'white' candidates have overcome this objection, to be sure, but what kind of standard is that?"
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Personal Development
"Experience is in the fingers and the head. The heart is inexperienced."
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Personal Development
"And they that rule in England, in stately conclaves met, alas, alas for England they have no graves as yet."
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Personal Development
"I believe the term is 'eminent domain.'Ah, yes. That means 'theft by the government."
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Personal Development
"There is no single truth in a world ruled by many political parties."
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Personal Development
"I have been ever of opinion that revolutions are not to be evaded."
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Personal Development
"Even if the paradise of material satisfaction, which they envisage as their final goal, were realized on earth, it would not bring mankind either contentment or peace."
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Personal Development
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