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All great art, and today all great artlessness, must appear extreme to...  
Being a Jew is like walking in the wind or swimming: you are touched a...  
Every neurosis is a primitive form of legal proceeding in which the ac...  
Immature artists imitate. Mature artists steal.   Art
In the American metaphysic, reality is always material reality, hard, ...  
Literature is the human activity that make the fullest and most precis...  
Probably it is impossible for humor to be ever a revolutionary weapon....  
The function of literature, through all its mutations, has been to mak...  
The immature artist imitates. The mature artist steals.  
The poet may be used as a barometer, but let us not forget that he is ...   Poetry
We are at heart so profoundly anarchistic that the only form of state ...  
We who are liberal and progressive know that the poor are our equals i...  
Where misunderstanding serves others as an advantage, one is helpless ...  
Youth is a time when we find the books we give up but do not get over.