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Twentieth-century art may start with nothing, but it flourishes by virtue of its belief in itself.

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I absolutely don’t believe in anything. Full stop. Including luck.
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When neither high purpose nor the categorical imperatives of religion will do, the only argument against suicide is life itself.
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in their nerve ends, not the facts of life but the facts of death and violence: absurd, random, gratuitous, unjustified, and inescapably part of the society we have created.
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It is easy to smile at an insult and pretend it’s funny when the person insulting you is hosing you with money.
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Twentieth-century art may start with nothing, but it flourishes by virtue of its belief in itself.
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Art Belief Coherence Flourish Itself May Nothing Start Virtue
It puts domestic problems back into proportion and adds an element of seriousness to your drab, routine life.
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To put yourself into a situation where a mistake cannot necessarily be recouped, where the life you lose may be your own, clears the head wonderfully.
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The real resistance now is to an art which forces its audience to recognize and accept imaginatively.
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In the possibility of control over what seems essentially uncontrollable, in the coherence of the inchoate, and in its ability to create its own values.
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Coherence Control Create Essential Inchoate Over Own Possibility Seem Value
Since what happened in them was beyond the imagination, it was therefore also beyond art and all those human values on which art is traditionally based.
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I’m good at reading people.
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He pays for his social ease with what used to be called his soul – his discriminations, his uniqueness, his psychic energy, his self.
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Divorce transforms habit into drama.
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Despite the hundreds of attempts, police terror and the concentration camps have proved to be more or less impossible subjects for the artist.
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Now, if, as I think, writing should be, it’s a kind of risky trade.
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You pause and attend: the heart beats in your chest; outside, the trees are thick with new leaves, a swallow dips over them, the light moves, people are going about their business.
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