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"That dichotomy between the public consumption of the work and my intent and practice in making it is an uneasy one for me, on occasion."
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"A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes."
"It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself."
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"I'm guilty of extraordinary naivete, I suppose. But it's a naivete that I really don't want to abandon, not even now."
"I found myself serving a sentence of public denial from the very second the raid on my apartment happened."
"I became good at defending myself, but as far as I was concerned, that was a transient skill."
"It's no small irony that the government inevitably and invariably ends up promoting precisely that which they would most like to repress."
"There's no particular evidence that any of the lower mammals or any of the other animals have any interest in aesthetics at all. But Homo sapiens does, always has and always will."
"I will always admit immediately to what's obvious, which is that Homo sapiens is inherently erotic or inherently sensual from birth."
"If it gets to the Supreme Court, I'll have the directors of every museum in the country as expert testimony that my work is legitimate art."
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