We're kind of wishing some parents would come back. And of course we're uneasy about the fact that we wish they'd come back - I mean, what's wrong with us?
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We're not keen on the idea of the story sharing its valence with the reader. But the reader's own life "outside" the story changes the story.David Foster Wallace
For these cultures, getting rid of the pain without addressing the deeper cause would be like shutting off a fire alarm while the fire's still going.
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I think TV promulgates the idea that good art is just art which makes people like and depend on the vehicle that brings them the art.
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It seems important to find ways of reminding ourselves that most "familiarity" is meditated and delusive.
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Yuppies, I guess, and younger intellectuals, whatever. These are the people pretty much all the younger writers I admire are writing for, I think.
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