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" What I feel is there are certain demands that you have to satisfy in any piece of writing. When it's just for me, it's just for me, but if it's a piece for a particular publication, I know what they're going to ask for. "

Hilton Als

Going

Feel

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Work

Nothing

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People

Natural

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Always

I Am

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Hilton Als

Think

Story

" In the contemporary world, artists are almost entirely self-referential. "