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There's something always instinctively visually right about nature. There's no difference, to my eye, between looking at a great painting and looking at nature. Because painting, when it's great, has the same immutable rightness, unquestioned rightness, about it.


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LARRY KRAMER AIDS is a plague - numerically, statistically and by any definition known to modern public health - ...
LARRY KRAMER I now realize that I am a gay man before anything else. Other gays may think they're a Jew first...
LARRY KRAMER If the books are selling, the money will follow.
LARRY KIRSHBAUM I'd only been in the business three or four years, but I told myself that someday I'd like t...
LARRY KIRSHBAUM A nonfiction author has to bring a platform with him - radio, a TV show or some kind of recognizable...
LARRY KIRSHBAUM I'm sure in a lot of publishing houses that there is a frustration that people feel, that they&#...
LARRY KIRSHBAUM Basically, what it comes down to is I love what I do. I don't do it for fame. I don't do it ...
LARRY KING My father died when I was nine and a half. We were on relief for two years. They call it welfare now...
LARRY KING People would pay money to work at CNN.
LARRY KING I have lifelong friends. My oldest friend, Herbie, has been a friend since I was 9. I've had bon...
LARRY KING I don't know what a softball question is. All I know is I have no agenda. I ask short questions,...
LARRY KING