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The Hallmark Of The Minor Artist Is To Be Obsessed With Style As An End In Itself.

A Gustave Courbet Portrait Of A Trout Has More Death In It Than Rubens Could Get In A Whole Crucifixion.

The Point Of A Library's Existence Is Not Persuasion Or Evangelism, But Knowledge. It Is Irrelevant To The Good Library Whether, As An Institution, It Shares Or Promotes Your Core Values Or Mine, Or The Attorney General's Or Saddam Hussein's. The Library Is Always An Instrument Of Choice, And The Choice Is Always Yours, Not Your Elected Or Designated Leaders.

Landscape Is To American Painting What Sex And Psychoanalysis Are To The American Novel.

America Is A Construction Of Mind, Not Of Race Or Inherited Class Or Ancestral Territory.