A typewriter is a means of transcribing thought, not expressing it.
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For those for whom the sex act has come to seem mechanical and merely the meeting and manipulation of body parts, there often remains a hunger which can be called metaphysical but which is not recognized as such, and which seeks satisfaction in physical danger, or sometimes in torture, suicide, or murder.
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Appetite is essentially insatiable, and where it operates as a criterion of both action and enjoyment (that is, everywhere in the Western world since the sixteenth century) it will infallibly discover congenial agencies (mechanical and political) of expression.
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Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language.
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In this electronic age we see ourselves being translated more and more into the form of information, moving toward the technological extension of consciousness.
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