Great sadness can be off putting, hard to comprehend, especially if it hasn't been your experience. It's amazing … - Hilton Als

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To follow in Beethoven's footsteps transcends one's strength.

Hilton Als

Great sadness can be off putting, hard to comprehend, especially if it hasn't been your experience. It's amazing for me to know now that AIDS, for instance, is something a lot of people don't "get," whereas it entirely shaped my social life since the time I was twenty until I was almost forty.

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I thought of the structure as musical. The first piece, for instance, contains the names
subject matter of every person to come in the book. Like a piece of music with themes, etc.

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Recalling, for me, is a great way of living, so not to forget.

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I feel like there are so few girls in New York like that anymore, who are not focused on getting a man with money.

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I think I'm just generally more interested in figuration than abstraction. I think that painting abstraction often feels like painting colors to me, whereas portraits always feel like something connected. I like the exchange, the collaborative aspect of sitter and subject for sure.

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I think it's cultural racism more than anything, which dovetails with actual racism, but the cultural racism to me is even more shocking.

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