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

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

" As photographs give people an imaginary possession of a past that is unreal, they also help people to take possession of space in which they are insecure. "

" The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art - and, by analogy, our own experience - more, rather than less, real to us. The function of criticism should be to show how it is what it is, even that it is what it is, rather than to show what it means. "

" 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. "

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

" So successful has been the camera's role in beautifying the world that photographs, rather than the world, have become the standard of the beautiful. "

" Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art. "

" Although none of the rules for becoming more alive is valid, it is healthy to keep on formulating them. "

" Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster, which is one of the oldest subjects of art. "

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" AIDS occupies such a large part in our awareness because of what it has been taken to represent. It seems the very model of all the catastrophes privileged populations feel await them. "

" The truth is always something that is told, not something that is known. If there were no speaking or writing, there would be no truth about anything. There would only be what is. "

" Books are funny little portable pieces of thought. "

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

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

" The love of the famous, like all strong passions, is quite abstract. Its intensity can be measured mathematically, and it is independent of persons. "

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

" The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie. "

" My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything. "

" Making social comment is an artificial place for an artist to start from. If an artist is touched by some social condition, what the artist creates will reflect that, but you can't force it. "

" Authoritarian political ideologies have a vested interest in promoting fear, a sense of the imminence of takeover by aliens and real diseases are useful material. "

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

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

" What is most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine. "

" For those who live neither with religious consolations about death nor with a sense of death (or of anything else) as natural, death is the obscene mystery, the ultimate affront, the thing that cannot be controlled. It can only be denied. "

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

" 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. "

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

" What we need is to use what we have. "