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Art is good when it springs from necessity. This kind of origin is the...  
Art need no longer be an account of past sensations. It can become the...  
As for my father, few souls are less troubled. He can be simply please...  
Comedy is tragedy that happens to other people.  
Hollywood... was the place where the United States perpetrated itself ...  
I think it's one of the scars in our culture that we have too high an ...  
I think the adjective "post-modernist" really means "mannerist." Books...  
I was sitting in the looping studio late one night, and I had this epi...  
In the mythic schema of all relations between men and women, man propo...  
It is far easier for a woman to lead a blameless life than it is for a...  
Just because we're sisters under the skin doesn't mean we've got much ...  
Midnight, and the clock strikes. It is Christmas Day, the werewolves b...  
Mother goddesses are just as silly a notion as father gods. If a reviv...  
Pornographers are the enemies of women only because our contemporary i...  
Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a nove...  
The bed is now as public as the dinner table and governed by the same ...  
The fin is coming early this siecle.  
The notion of a universality of human experience is a confidence trick...  
The whore is despised by the hypocritical world because she has made a...  
There are lots of things that you can brush under the carpet about you...  
They danced the dance of the outcasts for the outcasts who watched the...  
This dance was the dance of death. The clowns danced it for the wretch...  
Where ambition can cover its enterprises, even to the person himself, ...  
Women's sexy underwear is a minor but significant growth industry of l...