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I take for granted that for the imaginative writer, the exercise of the imagination is part of the basic process of coping with reality, just as actor...more

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The surrealists, and the modern movement in painting as a whole, seemed to offer a key to the strange postwar world with its threat of nuclear war. Th...more

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People think that by living on some mountainside in a tent and being frozen to death by freezing rain, they're somehow discovering reality, but of cou...more

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Everything is becoming science fiction. From the margins of an almost invisible literature has sprung the intact reality of the 20th century.

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Maybe you are a poet and a dreamer, but don't you realize that those two species are extinct now?

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...reason rationalizes reality for him (Dr. Nathan) as it does for the rest of us, in the Freudian sense of providing a more palatable or convenient e...more