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Leslie Fiedler

"I never met anybody in my life who says, I want to be a critic. People want to be a fireman, poet, novelist."

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"I never met anybody in my life who says, I want to be a critic. People want to be a fireman, poet, novelist."

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"The condition you're in at this moment is the product of your previous thoughts, to change your condition, change your thoughts."

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"Better to be dirty than dead."

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"Happiness is not defined by how much money you possess."

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"I am giving my all in all to the sacred moments."

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"I will do my very best while there is still grace."

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"Hope in the heart is the escape in any hardship."

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"One of the most beautiful words is touch, it exquisitely represents our need to prove ourselves that we are not in a dream!"

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"There is no good day or a bad day, but our perception makes it so."

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"Wherever there is a religious regime, over there there is ignorance, misery and absurdity! No religious state can ever elevate its own people! Sooner or later, the primitiveness of the religious administrations and the irrationality of the religious rules will cause a great collapse of those countries! The downfall is inevitable!"

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"I liked Camille Paglia. I liked her even better when I heard her talk."
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"When I was 12 years old, someone took me to see Martha Graham. It was nothing like what I thought of as serious dancing and even then I knew I was having a great experience. It was as if somebody was moving through space like no one ever did before."
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"I think Henry Miller has had huge influence not because he wrote about sex, but because the memoir or the nonfiction novel has become such a monumental force in American publishing, if not in literature."
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"The novel is always pop art, and the novel is always dying. That's the only way it stays alive. It does really die. I've been thinking about that a lot."
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"Critics? How do they happen? I know how it happened to me. I would send a poem or story to a magazine and they would say this doesn't suit our needs precisely but on the other hand you sound interesting. Would you be interested in doing a review?"
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"Anybody in the next centuries wanting to know what it was like to be a poet in the middle of the 20th century should read Kaddish."
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"My assignment is what every writer's assignment is: tell the truth of his own time."
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"The novel is the first art form that is an honest-to-god commodity. That's what makes it different from both high art and folk art."
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