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"Television broadcasts have, in the main, been more suggestive, less specific, more distant in their images than the print press: often you knew that lump was a dead body only because a chattering reporter told you it was."
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"Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills."
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"We have rudiments of reverence for the human body, but we consider as nothing the rape of the human mind."
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"The body has a mind of its own."
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"Your body isn't just a body. It's an ecosystem."
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"The eyes like sentinel occupy the highest place in the body."
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"I sink down into my body as into a swamp, fenland, where only I know the footing. I'm a cloud, congealed around a central object, the shape of a pear, which is hard and more real than I am and glows red within its translucent wrapping. Inside it is a space, huge as the sky at night and dark and curved like that, though black-red rather than black."
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"Treat your body good, because your body is your boat, it is your horse, it is your car, your wings, your every possible vehicle to take you to every possible place!"
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"You can kill the body but not the spirit."
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"It is a scientific fact that your body will not absorb cholesterol if you take it from another person's plate."
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"The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mold of the body and mind."
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"War is big and there are only so many reporters and only so many places for their words and images to appear. Choices are made constantly."
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"Well, I think everybody's a little jealous of the Vietnam Wall, even people from wars that already have good monuments. You have a monument like the Wall and nobody ever forgets your war, you can bet on that."
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"Vietnam is often called our only uncensored war, but that only means that the government wasn't vetting the pictures and words."
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"We entered the 20th century trying to deal with three ideas purporting to define or describe or explain three spheres of action, development and conflict: Darwin on the natural world, Freud on the internal world, Marx on the economic world."
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"The daily press, the immediate media, is superb at synecdoche, at giving us a small thing that stands for a much larger thing. Reporters on the ground, embedded or otherwise, can tell us about or send us pictures of what happened in that place at that time among those people."
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"Technology has changed the way book publishing works, as it has changed everything else in the world of media."
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"The mainstream media showed, for example, no blood and guts resulting from the 9/11 attacks."
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"War is grounded in the notion of triumph and defeat. It is zero-sum."
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"You've gotten words about those American and Iraqi deaths and mutilations, but precious few images."
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"I'm a schoolteacher and a writer. So that's what I do."
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