The problem is that once the rules of art are debunked, and once the unpleasant realities the irony diagnoses are revealed and diagnosed, 'then' what do we do?
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I don't embrace irony, but I do think it's a pre-existing condition; we manage it as best we can.
Irony is a great tool to deal with things. It's an intellectualization, a way to go above things, which can work.
When the uncreative tell the creative what to do, it stops being art.
The novelist has a responsibility to adhere to the facts as closely as possible, and if they are inconvenient, that's where the art comes in. You must work with intractable facts and find the dramatic shape inside them.
Once you take yourself too seriously the art will suffer.
Art is the close scrutiny of reality and therefore I put on the stage only those things that I know happen in our society.
The more you think, the more you ruin things. Art has to come viscerally; otherwise, forget it.
We have art in order not to die of the truth.
A vast percentage of the human race is literally not wired neurologically to get irony. Well more than half of humanity takes life at face value, which is to me terrifying.
Art is a liaison between some sort of deranged mentality and others who are not going through it.
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