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Leslie Fiedler

"The middlebrow, I hate."

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"The middlebrow, I hate."

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"If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us."

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"I hate that which we have decided to call realism, even though I have been made one of its high priests."

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"We do not hate as long as we still attach a lesser value, but only when we attach an equal or a greater value."

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"It was the hate of the used and tormented, who are the children of the used and tormented, and whose own children will be used and tormented."

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"I hate the word 'sneering', I can't help the way my face looks."

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"To be a real philosopher all that is necessary is to hate some one else's type of thinking."

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"I never storyboard. I hate it. I don't understand why so many directors want to make comic strips of their films."

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"Hemingway seems to be in a funny position. People nowadays can't identify with him closely as a member of their own generation, and he isn't yet historical."
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"I've been writing about James Fenimore Cooper. He was not a writer. Here was a man who was 30 years old and had never put anything more than his signature on paper."
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"I love it now that a large minority of people who are handicapped prefer to call themselves crippled. This is all part of the game, like queer theory."
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"Faulkner sat in our living room and read from Light in August. That was incredible."
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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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"I like that people who are not experts can not only understand but get engaged by my work. I like that Joe Paterno can read me. Bill Bradley."
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"What I really dream of is that somebody would blow everything I've done out of the water in a beautiful way, which would clear the way for something better to come along."
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