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"Some of them will, but most of them are willed. Some of them are genuine, but most of them are bad actors."
"When dealing with two faced people, it is difficult to know which face is uglier, the real one or the manufactured one."
"Any halfway clever devil would decorate the highway to Hell as beautiful as possible."
"It's not enough to be able to lie with a straight face; anybody with enough gall to raise on a busted flush can do that. The first way to lie artistically is to tell the truth - but not all of it. The second way involves telling the truth, too, but is harder: Tell the exact truth and maybe all of it but tell it so unconvincingly that your listener is sure you are lying."
"It had never occurred to me that a person could know all the right things to say and deploy them to get what she wanted, without having to mean any of it."
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"The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art - and, by analogy, our own experience - more, rather than less, real to us. The function of criticism should be to show how it is what it is, even that it is what it is, rather than to show what it means."
"Most people in this society who aren't actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics."
"As objects of contemplation, images of the atrocious can answer to several different needs. To steel oneself against weakness. To make oneself more numb. To acknowledge the existence of the incorrigible."
"Religion is probably, after sex, the second oldest resource which human beings have available to them for blowing their mind."
"The writer is either a practicing recluse or a delinquent, guilt-ridden one--or both. Usually both."
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