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It was the basilica of gossip, the Vatican of inside dope.


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The greater the artist, the greater the doubt; perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize.



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The greater the artist, the greater the doubt.




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A Gustave Courbet portrait of a trout has more death in it than Rubens could get in a whole Crucifixion.



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One gets tired of the role critics are supposed to have in this culture: It's like being the piano player in a whorehouse; you don't have any control over the action going on upstairs.



Why wait for a call when you have a command?

Why wait for a call when you have a command?



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Political stress is always apt to shrink the private arena and attach it on to the public



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Popular in our time, unpopular in his. So runs the stereotype of rejected genius.



It is the nature of carnivores to get power and then, having disposed of their enemies, to deploy the emollient powers of Great Art to make themselves look like herbivores.

It is the nature of carnivores to get power and then, having disposed of their enemies, to deploy the emollient powers of Great Art to make themselves look like herbivores.





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True conversion means turning not only from sin but also from depending on self-made righteousness.



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