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It is the nature of aphoristic thinking to be always in a state of concluding; a bid to have the final word is inherent in all powerful phrase-making.
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It's a pleasure to share one's memories. Everything remembered is dear, endearing, touching, precious. At least the past is safe - though we didn't know it at the time. We know it now. Because it's in the past; because we have survived.
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Jews and homosexuals are the outstanding creative minorities in contemporary urban culture. Creative, that is, in the truest sense: they are creators of sensibilities. The two pioneering forces of modern sensibility are Jewish moral seriousness and homosexual aestheticism and irony.
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Luck is largely a matter of paying attention.
Old Wives' Tales (1984) -
Men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less.
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Millions long for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
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Much of modern art is devoted to lowering the threshold of what is terrible. By getting us used to what, formerly, we could not bear to see or hear, because it was too shocking, painful, or embarrassing, art changes morals.
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My aunt is a famous L.A. chef, Susan Feniger, and she's got Street and Border Grill. So a fun night out for me is to go to my aunt's restaurants.
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Nature in America has always been suspect, on the defensive, cannibalized by progress. In America, every specimen becomes a relic.
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No self-respecting woman should wish or work for the success of a party who ignores her sex.
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Perversity is the muse of modern literature.
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Religion is probably, after sex, the second oldest resource which human beings have available to them for blowing their minds.
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Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster, which is one of the oldest subjects of art.
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Simultaneously, my two biggest heroes are Susan Sontag and Morticia Addams from 'The Addams Family.'
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Some people help thousands of people directly, like Marie Curie or Susan B. Anthony. Others help us by inspiring us, like Amelia Earhart. But you do have to help someone.
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Spend your free time the way you like, not the way you think you're supposed to.
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Taste has no system and no proofs.
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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.
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The becoming of man is the history of the exhaustion of his possibilities.
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