- Dreams
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
What our children have to fear is not the cars on the highways of tomorrow but our own pleasure in calculating the most elegant parameters of their deaths.
- Madness
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- Nov 07, 2020
In a completely sane world, madness is the only freedom.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
Given that external reality is a fiction, the writer's role is almost superfluous. He does not need to invent the fiction because it is already there.
- Literature
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everything is becoming science fiction. From the margins of an almost invisible literature has sprung the intact reality of the 20th century.
- Science
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- Nov 07, 2020
Science and technology multiply around us. To an increasing extent they dictate the languages in which we speak and think. Either we use those languages, or we remain mute.
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would sum up my fear about the future in one word: boring. And that's my one fear: that everything has happened; nothing exciting or new or interesting is ever going to happen again... the future is just going to be a vast, conforming suburb of the soul.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
The future is going to be boring. The suburbanisation of the planet will continue, and the suburbanisation of the soul will follow soon after.
- Art
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- Nov 07, 2020
The surrealists, and the modern movement in painting as a whole, seemed to offer a key to the strange postwar world with its threat of nuclear war. The dislocations and ambiguities, in cubism and abstract art as well as the surrealists, reminded me of my childhood in Shanghai.
- Imagination
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think it's possible to touch people's imagination today by aesthetic means.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
I suspect that many of the great cultural shifts that prepare the way for political change are largely aesthetic. A Buick radiator grille is as much a political statement as a Rolls Royce radiator grille, one enshrining a machine aesthetic driven by a populist optimism, the other enshrining a hierarchical and exclusive social order.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
The chief role of the universities is to prolong adolescence into middle age, at which point early retirement ensures that we lack the means or the will to enforce significant change.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's true that I have very little idea what I shall be writing next, but at the same time I have a powerful premonition of everything that lies ahead of me, even ten years ahead.
- Become
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- Nov 07, 2020
Medicine was certainly intended to be a career. I wanted to become a psychiatrist, an adolescent ambition which, of course, is fulfilled by many psychiatrists.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Yes, sometimes I think that all my writing is nothing more than the compensatory work of a frustrated painter.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020