Any important disease whose causality is murky, and for which treatment is ineffectual, tends to be awash in significance.

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Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.

Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.

To take a photograph is to participate in another person's mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by...

To take a photograph is to participate in another person's mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by...

The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.

The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.

Lying is an elementary means of self-defense.

Lying is an elementary means of self-defense.

The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own.

The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own.

Silence remains, inescapably, a form of speech.

Silence remains, inescapably, a form of speech.

It is not altogether wrong to say that there is no such thing as a...

It is not altogether wrong to say that there is no such thing as a...

Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art.

Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art.

Ambition, if it feeds at all, does so on the ambition of others.

Ambition, if it feeds at all, does so on the ambition of others.

The life of the creative man is lead, directed and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom...

The life of the creative man is lead, directed and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom...

Making social comment is an artificial place for an artist to start from. If an...

Making social comment is an artificial place for an artist to start from. If an...

What pornography is really about, ultimately, isn't sex but death.

What pornography is really about, ultimately, isn't sex but death.

Cancer patients are lied to, not just because the disease is (or is thought to...

Cancer patients are lied to, not just because the disease is (or is thought to...

Volume depends precisely on the writer's having been able to sit in a room every...

Volume depends precisely on the writer's having been able to sit in a room every...

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

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

Authoritarian political ideologies have a vested interest in promoting fear, a sense of the imminence...

Authoritarian political ideologies have a vested interest in promoting fear, a sense of the imminence...

I don't want to express alienation. It isn't what I feel. I'm interested in various...

I don't want to express alienation. It isn't what I feel. I'm interested in various...

That only a few, under any circumstances, protest against the injustice of long-established laws and...

That only a few, under any circumstances, protest against the injustice of long-established laws and...

When you see Washington consistently turning a blind eye to suffering, dont sit back and...

When you see Washington consistently turning a blind eye to suffering, dont sit back and...

Apathy is the glove into which evil slips its hand

Apathy is the glove into which evil slips its hand