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Intelligence is really a kind

Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
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We live under continual threat

We live under continual threat of two equally fearful, but seemingly opposed, destinies: unremitting banality and inconceivable terror. It is fantasy, served out in large rations by the popular arts, which allows most people to cope with these twin specters.
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What pornography is really about,

What pornography is really about, ultimately, isn't sex but death.
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Victims suggest innocence. And innocence,

Victims suggest innocence. And innocence, by the inexorable logic that governs all relational terms, suggests guilt.
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A family's photograph album is

A family's photograph album is generally about the extended family and, often, is all that remains of it.
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Ours is a culture based

Ours is a culture based on excess, on overproduction; the result is a steady loss of sharpness in our sensory experience. All the conditions of modern life -- its material plenitude, its sheer crowdedness -- conjoin to dull our sensory faculties.
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It is not altogether wrong

It is not altogether wrong to say that there is no such thing as a bad photograph -- only less interesting, less relevant, less mysterious ones.
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AIDS obliges people to think

AIDS obliges people to think of sex as having, possibly, the direst consequences: suicide. Or murder.
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For those who live neither

For those who live neither with religious consolations about death nor with a sense of death (or of anything else) as natural, death is the obscene mystery, the ultimate affront, the thing that cannot be controlled. It can only be denied.
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In America, the photographer is

In America, the photographer is not simply the person who records the past, but the one who invents it.
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