"This might be one way to start talking about differences between the early postmodern writers of the fifties and sixties and their contemporary descendants."

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"This might be one way to start talking about differences between the early postmodern writers of the fifties and sixties and their contemporary descendants."

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"Michael and I talk at least every two weeks. He understands why I've done the things I have."

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"Tennis lets you talk while you're playing."

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"I don't talk like House, or walk like him. I certainly don't think like him. I don't like to think for more than 15 minutes at a stretch actually; I am a fragile flower."

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"You talk to the real cops and they say ninety percent of it is paperwork."

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"I'm not sure we think it's a win to talk about what you're taking out."

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"I don't have to talk about whether or not I got raped in jail."

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"I can talk to anybody but when it comes to somebody that I like, then I turn into like this five-year-old kindergartener in a sandbox."

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"I think I was very often bored as a child, but boredom is not what I knew it as-what I knew was that I worried a lot."

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"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."

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"It is also lonely on a level that cannot be conveyed ... If a person in physical pain has a hard time attending to anything except that pain, a clinically depressed person cannot even perceive any other person or thing as independent of the universal pain that is digesting her cell by cell."

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"You decide. You be the judge. It says You are welcome regardless of severity. Severity is in the eye of the sufferer, it says. Pain is pain."

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"Psychotics, say what you want about them, tend to make the first move."

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"I mean, Tarantino is such a SHMUCK 90 percent of the time. But ten percent of the time, I've seen genius shining off the guy."

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"And we hate this possibility in movies; we hate this "both" shit. "Both" comes off as sloppy characterization, muddy filmmaking, lack of focus. ... But I submit that the real reason we criticized and disliked Lynch's Laura's muddy bothness is that it required of us an empathetic confrontation with the exact same muddy bothness in ourselves and our intimates that makes the real world of moral selves so tense and uncomfortable, a bothness we go to the movies to get a couple hours' fucking relief from."

Criticism

"Something they seem to omit to mention in Boston AA when you're new and out of your skull with desperation and ready to eliminate your map and they tell you how it'll all get better and better as you abstain and recover: they somehow omit to mention that the way it gets better and you get better is through pain. Not around pain, or in spite of it."

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