I'm enough of an anarchist aesthetically, when it comes to art - I want people to be reading … - Nell Zink

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There's something in life that's cool, it's relatively cheap, and fun, and populist. Even when it's elitist.

Nell Zink

I'm enough of an anarchist aesthetically, when it comes to art - I want people to be reading my stuff voluntarily. They should be doing it because they want to.

Aesthetically, Anarchist, Art, People, Reading, Voluntarily

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There are terrible things that never get easier, and there are things even more terrible that get easier with time and repetition.

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Whatever I was writing at the time, I knew there was no market for it and never would be, because there’s never a market for true art, so my main concern was always to have a job that didn’t require me to write or think.

Art, Jobs, Market, Require, Write, Writing

I wanted to hear my own whispers in the next room and know that I was thinking of me.

Hear, Next, Room, Rooms, Thinking

I never take pictures. Skies are much larger in reminiscences and my friends are much better-looking. Photos crop reality into little squares; instead, I have very good binoculars.

Larger, Pictures, Reality, Sky, Squares

My social status in the last year has gone from zero to hero.

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George Steiner

If future society assumes the contours foretold by Marxism, if the jungle of our cities turns to the polis of man and the dreams of anger are made real, the representative art will be high comedy. Art will be the laughter of intelligence, as it is in Plato, in Mozart, in Stendhal.

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Stephen Malkmus

There's something in life that's cool, it's relatively cheap, and fun, and populist. Even when it's elitist.

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Tennessee Williams

Hysteria is a natural phenomenon, the common denominator of the female nature. It's the female weapon and the test of a man is his ability to cope with it.

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Joseph Girzone

The kind of prayer I am talking about is a detached kind of prayer in which you are not looking for anything, just putting yourself in God's presence and sharing with him what you are feeling or what you are suffering. It is the kind of prayer in which you just open your heart to God and say, "God, I'm here. I'm not asking for anything, God. I just want to be near you and open my heart to you. "

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Kevin Sessums

I wrote an essay too, and mine started something like, "When I was asked to contribute to this book, I said, 'I could do a piece on [Larry] Kramer as a pain in the ass, but I suppose you have too many of those, as it is. '" And Sarah's began something like, "When I read about America's angriest AIDS activist, I can't believe they are talking about my sweet Uncle Larry. "

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