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"Idealism, alas, does not protect one from ignorance, dogmatism, and foolishness."
"A minority group has "arrived" only when it has the right to produce some fools and scoundrels without the entire group paying for it."
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"I think it's one of the scars in our culture that we have too high an opinion of ourselves. We align ourselves with the angels instead of the higher primates."
"Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms."
"Strangers used to gather together at the cinema and sit together in the dark, like Ancient Greeks participating in the mysteries, dreaming the same dream in unison."
"My mother learned that she was carrying me at about the same time the Second World War was declared; with the family talent for magic realism, she once told me she had been to the doctor's on the very day."
"Mother goddesses are just as silly a notion as father gods. If a revival of the myths of these cults gives woman emotional satisfaction, it does so at the price of obscuring the real conditions of life. This is why they were invented in the first place."
"Anxiety is the beginning of conscience, which is the parent of the soul but is not compatible with innocence."
"In a secular age, an authentic miracle must purport to be a hoax, in order to gain credit in the world."
"Hollywood... was the place where the United States perpetrated itself as a universal dream and put the dream into mass production."
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