A trait which differentiated New York from European cities was the incredible freedom and ease in which life, including sexual life, could be carried on, on many levels.
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As I go to sleep I remember what my father said-that one can never be sure if one will awake. The way my health is now, this is becoming more and more real.
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Banks introduced the installment plan. The disappearance of cash and the coming of the credit card changed the shape of life in the United States.
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Gatherings and, simultaneously, loneliness are the conditions of a writer's life.
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Homelessness is a part of our American system. There should be nothing wrong with this condition as long as the individual is not sentenced to unnecessary suffering and punishment.
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I am inspired by human sexuality. The act itself is mechanical and holds little interest to me.
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I can create countries just as I can create the actions of my characters. That is why a lot of travel seems to me a waste of time.
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I do like to live in other people's homes. I enjoy being a guest. I am an inexpensive guest. When one lives in another's home he can enter into the psychic kingdom of that person.
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I don't fret over lost time - I can always use the situations in a novel.
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I look back into past history, the stored experiences or products of the imagination. I look no further forward than the evening.
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If we reduce social life to the smallest possible unit we will find that there is no social life in the company of one.
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In London, the weather would affect me negatively. I react strongly to light. If it is cloudy and raining, there are clouds and rain in my soul.
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In my photographs it is apparent that there was no posing at the moment I released the shutter.
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It is not sex by itself that interests me, but its particular role in American consciousness, and in my own life.
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Mapplethorpe presented the body as a sexual object, separating it from the humanity of the person. He added nothing to photography as a medium. I hold his work in low regard.
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Physical comfort has nothing to do with any other comfort.
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The planned sit-down reception is an artificial forum where one is presented with a limited number of persons with whom he can hold a conversation.
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The principle of art is to pause, not bypass.
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The things I write are for those who are willing to accept a new relationship between the reader and the author.
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There are many types of participation. One can observe so intensely that one becomes part of the action, but without being an active participant.
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There must be no worse punishment to a totalitarian nation than the withdrawal of capital.
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