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There has been a time on earth when poets had been young and dead and famous - and were men. But now the poet as the tragic child of grandeur and destiny had changed. The child of genius was a woman, now, and the man was gone.

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On Wall Street he and a few others - how many? three hundred, four hundred, five hundred? had become precisely that... Masters of the Universe.

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Love is the ultimate expression of the will to live.

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Frankly, these days, without a theory to go with it, I can't see a painting.

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Radical Chic, after all, is only radical in Style; in its heart it is part of Society and its traditions.

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You never realise how much of your background is sewn into the lining of your clothes.

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I still believe nonfiction is the most important literature to come out of the second half of the 20th century.

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Not long after I published my first book, I quickly found I was terrible at being interviewed.

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I wrote a number of pieces in the year 1966 that were so bad that, although I'm a great collector of my own pieces, I have never collected them.

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I've never met an American who wanted to build an empire.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Journalist

Born: March 2nd, 1931

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