"Consumerism is our national religion."
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"As the medieval mind blamed God for human suffering, so the modern mind blames 'the system' for the industrial blight and plague of technology."
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"One parody is worth a thousand polemics."
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"It is the psychic depression of decadence which has come to this place and time. It is what happens to people who ignore their artists and deny their children. It is a terminal case of involutional melancholia which comes from within and cannot be cured by T.V. or psychotherapy or anything but a creative life, which is hard to come by in a country where it doesn't pay to do anything for yourself."
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"I grow old, I grow old, the center will not fold. In youth I had hardening of the categories and looked for the father and the mother in every lover. Then I cracked. Then I fragmented. Then the old man in my soul found the god in herself, not in some Jungian fairy tale but in the flesh that fell from the bones and the words that came into my mouth when the look went out of their eyes."
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"Technology evolves so much faster than wisdom."
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"What you say is who you are. How you say it is your style."
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"When I went to school, they told me literature was a rope I must use to climb out of the dark well of unknowing. Writers are the knots on the rope."
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"Perception is a prism, and reality is like shot silk - depends where the light hits."
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"like any Irish mother, I am scar tissue to the bone."
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"sex is like sandwiches, there has to be something in between."
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"During the summertime, I really like to dress like a gypsy. I love that whole lifestyle and the whole mixing of fabrics and flowy materials."
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"Longing is all that lasts."
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"movies have mirrored our moods and myths since the century began. They have taken on some of the work of religion."
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"if we begin on the men, there is no stopping. We must love them when we can."
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"married was the loneliest I got - being without the one you're with."
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"In an age in which greed and lust stalk the land like some Biblical plague, it is easy to view sex as just one more thing to be had. It is the mythos of moderns."
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"Just as a salesperson is never extreme or original or overdressed, so the TV retailers never do anything to distract their audiences from the real product, the commercial."
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"There are only two kinds of pain: too much love or too little."
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"... romance is unsatisfactory as a religion. It is no use looking for the infinite in the eyes of another."
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