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Every culture has its southerners -- people who work as little as they can, preferring to dance, drink, sing brawl, kill their unfaithful spouses; who have livelier gestures, more lustrous eyes, more colorful garments, more fancifully decorated vehicles, a wonderful sense of rhythm, and charm, charm, charm; unambitious, no, lazy, ignorant, superstitious, uninhibited people, never on time, conspicuously poorer (how could it be otherwise, say..
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Part of the puzzle, surely, lies in the disconnect between official rhetoric and lived realities. Americans are constantly extolling "traditions"; litanies to family values are at the center of every politician's discourse. And yet the culture of America is extremely corrosive of family life, indeed of all traditions except those redefined as "identities" that fit in the larger patterns of distinctiveness, cooperation, and openness to innov..
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I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
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Interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art.
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To interpret is to impoverish, to deplete the world--in order to set up a shadow world of "meanings."
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In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
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Don't be too hard on the envious. Be glad you have, or had in the past, something enviable.
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It depends on me, whether I'm happy within myself."
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Photography has become almost as widely practiced an amusement as sex and dancing.
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