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

Quote by Susan Sontag

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The ideology of capitalism makes us all into connoisseurs of liberty - of the indefinite...

The ideology of capitalism makes us all into connoisseurs of liberty - of the indefinite...

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 painter constructs, the photographer discloses.

The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.

Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.

Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.

I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.

I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.

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...

Although none of the rules for becoming more alive is valid, it is healthy to...

Although none of the rules for becoming more alive is valid, it is healthy to...

Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen...

Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen...

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...

Life is not significant details, illuminated by a flash, fixed forever. Photographs are.

Life is not significant details, illuminated by a flash, fixed forever. Photographs are.

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...

Sanity is a cozy lie.

Sanity is a cozy lie.

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...

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...

Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.

Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.

What we need is to use what we have.

What we need is to use what we have.

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

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

Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to...

Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to...

The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of...

The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of...

It is not suffering as such that is most deeply feared but suffering that degrades.

It is not suffering as such that is most deeply feared but suffering that degrades.