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“We'd probably most of us agree that these are dark times, and stupid ones, but do we need fiction that does nothing but dramatize how dark and stupid everything is? In dark times, the definition of good art would seem to be art that locates and applies CPR to those elements of what's human and magical that still live and glow despite the times' darkness. Real good fiction could have as dark a worldview as it wished, but it'd find a way both to depict this world and to illuminate the possibilities for being alive and human in it.”
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“Everyone carries a room about inside him.”
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“Society now hovers over mankind like a crushing weight, sometimes it seems with a willful malevolence.”
― A Critic's Notebook
― A Critic's Notebook
“Quick, man! Cling tenaciously to my buttocks!”
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“Writing is a form of personal freedom. It frees us from the mass identity we see in the making all around us. In the end, writers will write not to be outlaw heroes of some underculture but mainly to save themselves, to survive as individuals.”
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