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One set of messages of the so...

One set of messages of the society we live in is: Consume. Grow. Do what you want. Amuse yourselves. The very working of this economic system, which has bestowed these unprecedented liberties, most cherished in the form of physical mobility and material prosperity, depends on encouraging people to defy limits.

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The most potent elements in a...

The most potent elements in a work of art are, often, its silences.

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The white race is the cancer ...

The white race is the cancer of human history.

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I have been told that I am a ...

I have been told that I am a "natural" feminist, someone who was born a feminist. In fact I was quite blind to what the problem was: I couldn't understand why anyone would hesitate to do what they wanted to do just because they were told that women didn't do such things.

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What I expect from writers-an...

What I expect from writers-and from myself as a writer-is to articulate a complex view of things. To incite us to be more compassionate. To orchestrate our mourning. And to celebrate ecstasy.

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Read a lot. Expect something ...

Read a lot. Expect something big, something exalting or deepening from a book. No book is worth reading that isn't worth re-reading.

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Ideas disturb the levelness o...

Ideas disturb the levelness of life

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Needing to have reality confi...

Needing to have reality confirmed and experience enhanced by photographs is an aesthetic consumerism to which everyone is now addicted. Industrial societies turn their citizens into image-junkies; it is the most irresistible form of mental pollution.

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Because each photograph is on...

Because each photograph is only a fragment, its moral and emotional weight depends on where it is inserted. A photograph changes according to the context in which it is seen: thus Smith's Minamata photographs will seem different on a contact sheet, in a gallery, in a political demonstration, in a police file, in a photographic magazine, in a book, on a living-room wall. Each o these situations suggest a different use for the photographs but none can secure their meaning.

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Books are not only the arbitr...

Books are not only the arbitrary sum of our dreams, and our memory. They also give us the model of self-transcende nce.

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Today everything exists to en...

Today everything exists to end in a photograph.

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Most men experience getting o...

Most men experience getting older with regret, apprehension. But most women experience it even more painfully: with shame. Aging is a man's destiny, something that must happen because he is a human being. For a woman, aging is not only her destiny . . . it is also her vulnerability.

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America was founded on a geno...

America was founded on a genocide, on the unquestioned assumption of the right of white Europeans to exterminate a resident, technologically backward, colored population in order to take over the continent.

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Mad people = People who stand...

Mad people = People who stand alone and burn. I'm attracted to them because they give me permission to do the same.

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We live in a world of copies ...

We live in a world of copies and we're fascinated when we encounter the originals (in a museum, for instance).

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AIDS obliges people to think ...

AIDS obliges people to think of sex as having, possibly, the direst consequences: suicide. Or murder.

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I do not think white America ...

I do not think white America is committed to granting equality to the American Negro. This is a passionately racist country; it will continue to be so in the foreseeable future.

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Volume depends precisely on t...

Volume depends precisely on the writer's having been able to sit in a room every day, year after year, alone.

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The problems of this world ar...

The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.

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Making social comment is an a...

Making social comment is an artificial place for an artist to start from. If an artist is touched by some social condition, what the artist creates will reflect that, but you can't force it.

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Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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