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" I just can't read, the way other people can, these tediously elaborated books. "

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" All human beings have bodies. All bodies are mortal. Yours, too, is one of these bodies. "

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" During Ronald Reagan's administration, '60 Minutes' ran a segment about the difference between Reagan's rhetoric and Reagan's actions. The show thought it had produced a hard-hitting piece; Reagan's team called up '60 Minutes' to thank them for the 15-minute commercial. "

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" We've been appropriating in art since Duchamp, and we've been appropriating in music since the first person was banging on drums. "

" I worry that I am not really a person anymore: I'm more of just a writing machine. I wonder what that has done to either my life and or my art. "

" The real impulse of most books is to tell a story to keep the reader lashed to the page. I don't get why that's a proper use of an adult's time. "

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" I'm just a totally selfish worker bee creating my little mini projects. "

" I believe in copyright, within limited precincts. But I also believe in fair use, public domain, and especially transformation. "

" I felt like I was definitely seeing something - the falsely gorgeous images of war, painted, almost invariably, in 'Times' combat photos. "

" Sports - especially the NBA - function as a place where American society pretends to discuss and pretends to solve questions and historical agonies that can't possibly be solved within the realm of sports. "

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