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- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
What TV is extremely good at - and realize that this is 'all it does' - is discerning what large numbers of people think they want, and supplying it.
- Getting
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- Nov 07, 2020
For these cultures, getting rid of the pain without addressing the deeper cause would be like shutting off a fire alarm while the fire's still going.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Pleasure becomes a value, a teleological end in itself. It's probably more Western than U.S. per se.
- Nuclear Weapons
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nuclear weapons and TV have simply intensified the consequences of our tendencies, upped the stakes.
- Creative
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- Nov 07, 2020
It can become an exercise in trying to get the reader to like and admire you instead of an exercise in creative art.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think TV promulgates the idea that good art is just art which makes people like and depend on the vehicle that brings them the art.
- Desire
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- Nov 07, 2020
I often think I can see it in myself and in other young writers, this desperate desire to please coupled with a kind of hostility to the reader.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fiction's about what it is to be a human being.
- Human
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- Nov 07, 2020
The other half is to dramatize the fact that we still 'are' human beings, now. Or can be.
- Human
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- Nov 07, 2020
I just think that fiction that isn't exploring what it means to be human today isn't art.
- Interesting
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- Nov 07, 2020
The interesting thing is why we're so desperate for this anesthetic against loneliness.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
It seems important to find ways of reminding ourselves that most 'familiarity' is meditated and delusive.
- Outside
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- Nov 07, 2020
We're not keen on the idea of the story sharing its valence with the reader. But the reader's own life 'outside' the story changes the story.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
The reader becomes God, for all textual purposes. I see your eyes glazing over, so I'll hush.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the things that makes Wittgenstein a real artist to me is that he realized that no conclusion could be more horrible than solipsism.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
This is so American, man: either make something your God and cosmos and then worship it, or else kill it.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
It looks like you can write a minimalist piece without much bleeding. And you can. But not a good one.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Rap's conscious response to the poverty and oppression of U.S. blacks is like some hideous parody of sixties black pride.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The great thing about irony is that it splits things apart, gets up above them so we can see the flaws and hypocrisies and duplicates.
- Irony
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- Nov 07, 2020