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“Two people who want the same thing will never generate the same intensity as two people who want different things, or one person who wants into an absence, a void--...”
― Audition
― Audition
“Sanity and insanity were not opposites but rather were the two faces of inanimate matter, the point at which the existence of consciousness can get no further in breaking down the existence of substance, of the body. Art, rooted in insanity, transforms itself through process into sanity: it is matter, the body, that is insane.”
― Parade
― Parade
“For a writer, exile is prison, a severing from the source, and so, courageous or not, he dies in front of our eyes.”
― My Friends
― My Friends
“He knew that [his work] embodied change, and he wasn’t interested in change. He was interested in the fragments that change leaves behind in its storming passage toward the future.”
― Parade
― Parade
“The impulse to have a child is very often a response to the woman’s own childhood, as though her childhood has left her incomplete, or has taken a part of her that she is driven to find again. The struggle, which is sometimes a direct combat, between the search for completeness and the desire to create art therefore becomes a core part of the artist’s development.”
― Parade
― Parade
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I have created this book club to read books from all over the world, but only from female authors. We will pick a book from a country a month a head ...more
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