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“Run from the Furies, and they find you, as if fear were a homing device, as if literature itself, on contemplating the abyss, were an invitation to jump into it, while Wagner whistles.”

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"Meeting at Winkel" http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A00E1DE1538F935A3575AC0A964948260&scp=36&sq=, The New York Times (6 September 1982)

“Every intelligent child is an amateur anthropologist. The first thing such a child notices is that adults don't make sense.”

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"Books of the Times" http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9506EFD61038F930A1575AC0A964948260&scp=62&sq=&st=nyt, The New York Times (23 September 1982)

“Rimbaud gave up poetry when it failed to change the world. Orwell at the end must have had his doubts about language, too, or he wouldn't have dreamed up Newspeak. Neither is remembered for his hard work at identity-making. Instead, the poet's name is worn by freaks, geeks and videodrones as if it were a logo on a T-shirt or a jet-propelled sneaker, and the novelist is propped up on a horse like the dead El Cid to frighten the Moorish hordes. They have both been turned into the standard-issue celebrity flacks of this empty, buzzing time, selling something other than themselves, unattached to honor, glory, kingship, sainthood or genius. They join a talk-show parade of the power-mad, the filthy rich and the serial killers, the softboiled fifteen-minute Warhol eggs, the rock musicians addled on cobra venom, the war criminals whose mothers never loved them and the starlets babbling on about their substance abuse, their child molestations, their anorexia and their liposuction. "I have never belonged to this race," said Rimbaud.”

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"On Shooting at Elephants" http://www.thenation.com/doc/20001211/leonard, The Nation (27 November 2000)

“We are getting to be of an age when it is difficult to grow new friends; we haven't the energy, the time to cultivate; each one gone is a permanent impoverishment.”

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"On Being Stupid" (p. 44)
Private Lives in the Imperial City (1979)

“It may be that the Greeks had it easy, with their light and their mountains and their plains and their islands waiting around for tourists. It was easy for them to believe that man fit in rather well. This fittingness may have given them the idea that we are seemlier than other evidence suggests. The heads of Rameses II at Abu Simbel and, for that matter, the skyscrapers of New York, have another idea of man. So do the artifacts of Albert Speer. It is depressing to wonder whether the Greeks just happened to be lucky, and the dream they left us is a lie about ourselves.”

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"The Caryatid" (p. 208)
Private Lives in the Imperial City (1979)

“In our brave new world, blushing is a form of nostalgia.”

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"On Being Embarrassed" (p. 139)
Private Lives in the Imperial City (1979)

“Somewhere in the Bill of Rights is a Pig Amendment; our freedom to stuff ourselves cannot be abridged. Having so stuffed, we demand a technological solution to the fat problem. Give me cyclamates, or give me death! This is not only immoral; it is also boring.”

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"The Diet" (p. 195)
Private Lives in the Imperial City (1979)

“Isn't it amazing the way the future succeeds in creating an appropriate past?”

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"Dash" (p. 146)
Private Lives in the Imperial City (1979)

“There are too many ironies in the fire!”

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This Pen For Hire (Doubleday, 1973, ISBN 0-385-03923-9), p. 6
Not Enough Blood, Not Enough Gore, The New York Times, 7 July 1970 http://www.nytimes.com/books/98/03/01/home/vidal-sisters.html