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One of the great functions of art is to help us imagine what it is like to be not ourselves, what it is like to be someone or something else.

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A decade of cutting away dead flesh, cauterizing old scars ripped open over and over and still it is not enough.
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If the imagination is to transcend and transform experience it has to question, to challenge, to conceive of alternatives, perhaps to the very life you are living at the moment.
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War is an absolute failure of imagination, scientific and political.
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In America we have only the present tense. I am in danger. You are in danger.
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The unconscious wants truth. It ceases to speak to those who want something else more than truth.
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The beauty of darkness is how it lets you see.
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A knowledge that is subliminal, subversive, preverbal: the knowledge flowing between two alike bodies, one of which has spent nine months inside the other.
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These scars bear witness but whether to repair or to destruction I no longer know.
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When I talk of taking a trip I mean forever.
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