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20722 American Quotes

The ideal art, the noblest of art: working with the complexities of life, refusing to simplify, to "overcome" doubt.

Ideal art Noblest Life Doubt
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Beauty is a question of optics. All sight is illusion

Beauty Question Sight Illusion
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Love commingled with hate is more powerful than love. Or hate.

Love Hate Powerful
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I love insult, it's always honest.

Love Insult Honest
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Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another’s skin, another’s voice, another’s soul.

Reading Involuntarily Voice Soul
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Dear girl! Life is addictive. Yet we must live.

Girl Life Addictive Live
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The denial of language is a suicidal one and we pay for it with our own lives.

Denial Language Suicidal Lives
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Maybe, love is always forgiveness, to a degree.

Love Forgiveness Degree
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Strange: how when a light is extinguished, it's immediately as if it has never been. Darkness fills in again, complete.

Strange Light Darkness Complete
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Society is the picnic certain individuals leave early, the party they fail to enjoy, the musical comedy they find not worth the price of admission.

Society Picnic Individuals Enjoy
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If food is poetry, is not poetry also food?

Food Poetry
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Hating "The Great Gatsby" (the novel) is like spitting into the Grand Canyon. It will not be going away anytime soon, but you will be.

Hating Spitting You
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Not what the mind sees, but what the mind imagines the eye must see.

Mind Imagines Eye See
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How crucial for us to rehearse the future, in words. Never to doubt that you will live to utter them. Never to doubt that you will tell your story.

Future Words Live Story
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In love there are two things - bodies and words.

Love Bodies Words
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Writing is a consequence of having been 'haunted' by material. Why this is, no one knows.

Writing Consequence Hunted Material
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I had forgotten that time wasn't fixed like concrete but in fact was fluid as sand, or water. I had forgotten that even misery can end

Time Fixed Forgotten Misery
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Writing! The activity for which the only adequate bribe is the possibility of suicide, one day.

Writing Activity Bribe Suicide
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For obviously the advantage for most writers is that no one sees them. The writer is invisible, which confers power.

Advantage Writer Invisible Power
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How lovely this world is, really: one simply has to look.

Lovely World Simply Look
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The use of language is all we have to pit against death and silence.

Language Death Silence
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Art is the highest expression of the human spirit.
Art Expression Human spirit
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There is nothing "ordinary" about reality.

Nothing Ordinary Reality
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Much in our lives is chance.

Lives Chance
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Writing is a solitary occupation, and one of its hazards is loneliness. But an advantage of loneliness is privacy, autonomy and freedom.

Writing Loneliness Privacy Freedom
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Tragedy is the highest form of art.

Tragedy Form Art
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Art is about freedom of expression, and should not be molded to fit any propaganda or lofty ideal.

Art Freedom Expression Ideal
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All that matters in life is forging deep ties of love and family and friends. Writing and reading come later.

Life Love Family Friends
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There is no original or primary gender a drag imitates, but gender is a kind of imitation for which there is no original.

Original Primary Gender Imitation
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...laughter emerges in the realization that all along the original was derived.

Laughter Realization Original Derived
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Life has to be protected. It is precarious. I would even go so far as to say that precarious life is, in a way, a Jewish value for me.

Life Protected Precarious Value
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Possibility is not a luxury; it is as crucial as bread.

Possibility Luxury Crucial
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I think that every sexual position is fundamentally comic.

Think Sexual Position Comic
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Masculine and feminine roles are not biologically fixed but socially constructed.

Masculine Feminine Roles Socially
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I am much more open about categories of gender, and my feminism has been about women's safety from violence, increased literacy, decreased poverty and more equality.

Gender Feminism Women Equality
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There is no gender identity behind the expressions of gender... identity is performatively constituted by the very 'expressions' that are said to be its results.

Gender Identity Expressions Results
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Love is not a state, a feeling, a disposition, but an exchange, uneven, fraught with history, with ghosts, with longings that are more or less legible to those who try to see one another with their own faulty vision.

Love Feeling History Vision
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To operate within the matrix of power is not the same as to replicate uncritically relations of domination.

Operate Power Domination
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When a society abandons its ideals just because most people can't live up to them, behavior gets very ugly indeed.

Society Ideals People Behavior
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Many people mistakenly think a new technology cancels out an old one.

People Think Technology Old
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Honesty has come to mean the privilege of insulting you to your face without expecting redress.

Honesty Privilege Insulting Redress
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The greater the controversy, the more you need manners.

Greater Controversy Manners
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Freedom without rules doesn't work. And communities do not work unless they are regulated by etiquette

Freedom Rules Work Etiquette
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Chaperons don't enforce morality; they force immorality to be discreet.

Enforce Morality Immorality Discreet
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We are born charming, fresh and spontaneous and must be civilized before we are fit to participate in society.

Charming Fresh Civilized Society
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It's far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help.

Impressive Discover Qualities Help
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Etiquette does not render you defenseless. If it did, even I wouldn't subscribe to it. But rudeness in retaliation for rudeness just doubles the amount of rudeness in the world.

Etiquette Defenseless Rudeness World
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People read informality as, 'Do whatever you feel like,' and whatever you feel like might be disastrous.

People Informality Feel Disastrous
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Hypocrisy is not generally a social sin, but a virtue.

Hypocrisy Social Sin Virtue
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If it's against state law, it's generally considered a breach of Etiquette.

Against Law Breach Etiquette
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