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Ronald Dworkin

"Perhaps MacKinnon should reflect on these suggestions that the censorship issue is not so simple-minded, so transparently gender-against-gender, as she insists. She should stop calling names long enough to ask whether personal sensationalism, hyperbole, and bad arguments are really what the cause of sexual equality now needs."

Source : "Pornography: An Exchange". Ronald Dworkin's reply to "Women and Pornography" by Catherine A. MacKinnon, New York Review of Books, Volume 41, No. 5, www.nybooks.com. March 3, 1994.

Ronald Dworkin

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“Serendipity is putting a quarter in the gumball machine and having three pieces come rattling out instead of one-all red.”
“To grieve over sin is one thing, to repent is another.”
“I'm like a sack of potatoes, to be abused at will.”
“Recognizing that the power of will is the supreme court over all other departments of my mind, I will exercise daily when I need the urge to act for any purpose; and I will form habits designed to bring the power of my will into action at least once daily.”
“I don't pretend to know anything about art. I make pictures for entertainment, and then the professors tell me what they mean.”
“There's nothing worse than talking about yourself to find out that you're not that interesting.”
“I always felt that my work hadn't much to do with art; my admirations for other art had very little room to show themselves in my work because I hoped that if I concentrated enough the intensity of scrutiny alone would force life into the pictures. I ignored the fact that art, after all, derives from art. Now I realize that this is the case.”
“Be a clown , be a clown, All the world loves a clown. Act the fool , play the calf, And you'll always have the last laugh .”

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