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" Sanity is a cozy lie. "

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" In America, the photographer is not simply the person who records the past, but the one who invents it. "

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" Silence remains, inescapably, a form of speech. "

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

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" I was not looking for my dreams to interpret my life, but rather for my life to interpret my dreams. "

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" A fiction about soft or easy deaths is part of the mythology of most diseases that are not considered shameful or demeaning. "

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

" It is not altogether wrong to say that there is no such thing as a bad photograph - only less interesting, less relevant, less mysterious ones. "

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

" I don't want to express alienation. It isn't what I feel. I'm interested in various kinds of passionate engagement. All my work says be serious, be passionate, wake up. "

" The life of the creative man is lead, directed and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom is one of our most important purposes. "

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" 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. "

" Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past, present, and future. "

" Lying is an elementary means of self-defense. "