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The best emotions to write out of are anger and fear or dread. The least energizing emotion to write out of is admiration. It is very difficult to write out of because the basic feeling that goes with admiration is a passive contemplative mood.
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The day may be approaching when the whole world will recognize woman as the equal of man.
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The hard truth is that what may be acceptable in elite culture may not be acceptable in mass culture, that tastes which pose only innocent ethical issues as the property of a minority become corrupting when they become more established. Taste is context, and the context has changed.
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The ideology of capitalism makes us all into connoisseurs of liberty - of the indefinite expansion of possibility.
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The love of the famous, like all strong passions, is quite abstract. Its intensity can be measured mathematically, and it is independent of persons.
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The most glorious thing about working in the collaborative art is when you have somebody like Susan Kingsley or Kathy Bates who are better than your play.
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The older I get, the greater power I seem to have to help the world; I am like a snowball - the further I am rolled the more I gain.
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The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
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The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of subjects - making it possible... to see a new beauty in what is vanishing.
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The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
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The taste for worst-case scenarios reflects the need to master fear of what is felt to be uncontrollable. It also expresses an imaginative complicity with disaster.
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The true Republic: men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less.
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The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.
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The truth will set you free - but first it may thoroughly irritate you.
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The writer is either a practicing recluse or a delinquent, guilt-ridden one; or both. Usually both.
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There is not a woman born who desires to eat the bread of dependence.
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There never will be complete equality until women themselves help to make laws and elect lawmakers.
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To think, I have had more than 60 years of hard struggle for a little liberty, and then to die without it seems so cruel.
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Unfortunately, moral beauty in art - like physical beauty in a person - is extremely perishable. It is nowhere so durable as artistic or intellectual beauty. Moral beauty has a tendency to decay very rapidly into sententiousness or untimeliness.
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Using a camera appeases the anxiety which the work-driven feel about not working when they are on vacation and supposed to be having fun. They have something to do that is like a friendly imitation of work: they can take pictures.
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