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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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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" 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. "

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

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

" Any critic is entitled to wrong judgments, of course. But certain lapses of judgment indicate the radical failure of an entire sensibility. "

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" Mallarme said that everything in the world exists in order to end in a book. Today everything exists to end in a photograph. "

" The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own. "

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

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" Books are funny little portable pieces of thought. "

" Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe. "

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

" Depression is melancholy minus its charms - the animation, the fits. "