Jean Baudrillard
Philosopher, Sociologist
"Photography is our exorcism. Primitive society had its masks, bourgeois society its mirrors. We have our images."
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Exorcism
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William S. Burroughs
Writer
"In exorcism, a verbal argument can never do anything. You can't ever beat the entity in a verbal argument because that's what he wants. It's only through a confront, a non-verbal confront, that anything happens. It has to be non-verbal."
Harper Lee
Novelist
"Any writer worth his salt writes to please himself."
Keanu Reeves
Actor, Producer
"Performing an exorcism was like changing your oil. It's a drag, but necessary."
Harper Lee
Novelist
"Any writer worth his salt writes to please himself...It's a self-exploratory operation that is endless. An exorcism of not necessarily his demon, but of his divine discontent."
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"Exorcism is a subject that interests me, and books on shamanism, I've read through."
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