The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of subjects - making it possible... to see a new beauty in what is vanishing.

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The writer is either a practicing recluse or a delinquent, guilt-ridden one; or both. Usually...

The writer is either a practicing recluse or a delinquent, guilt-ridden one; or both. Usually...

Lying is an elementary means of self-defense.

Lying is an elementary means of self-defense.

Lying is the most simple form of self-defence.

Lying is the most simple form of self-defence.

Pornography is a theatre of types, never of individuals.

Pornography is a theatre of types, never of individuals.

In the final analysis, style is art. And art is nothing more or less than...

In the final analysis, style is art. And art is nothing more or less than...

A family's photograph album is generally about the extended family and, often, is all that...

A family's photograph album is generally about the extended family and, often, is all that...

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...

The taste for quotations (and for the juxtaposition of incongruous quotations) is a Surrealist taste.

The taste for quotations (and for the juxtaposition of incongruous quotations) is a Surrealist taste.

Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art.

Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art.

My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.

My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.

Any critic is entitled to wrong judgments, of course. But certain lapses of judgment indicate...

Any critic is entitled to wrong judgments, of course. But certain lapses of judgment indicate...

Religion is probably, after sex, the second oldest resource which human beings have available to...

Religion is probably, after sex, the second oldest resource which human beings have available to...

What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful...

What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful...

Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux...

Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux...

The truth is always something that is told, not something that is known. If there...

The truth is always something that is told, not something that is known. If there...

What we need is to use what we have.

What we need is to use what we have.

The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.

The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.

Al forms of consensus about ''great'' books and ''perennial'' problems, once stabilized, tend to deteriorate...

Al forms of consensus about ''great'' books and ''perennial'' problems, once stabilized, tend to deteriorate...

The colleges, while they provide us with libraries, furnish no professors of books; and I...

The colleges, while they provide us with libraries, furnish no professors of books; and I...

There are seventy million books in American libraries, but the one you want is always...

There are seventy million books in American libraries, but the one you want is always...