“Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.”
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Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
Volume depends precisely on the writer's having been able to sit in a room every day, year after year, alone.
The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art - and, by analogy, our own experience - more, rather than less, real to us. The function of criticism should be to show how it is what it is, even that it is what it is, rather than to show what it means.
Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.
