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Quotes by Critic
"I always arrive late at the office, but I make up for it by leaving early."
150
"I can hire one-half of the working class to kill the other half."
145
"When I was a little boy I did not, of course, trouble much about my appearance."
134
"Newspapers always excite curiosity. No one ever puts one down without the feeling of disappointment."
125
"Good temper is one of the greatest preservers of the features."
122
"That a literature in our time is living is shown in that way that it debates problems."
105
"To eat steak rare... represents both a nature and a morality."
92
"My motto is: Contented with little, yet wishing for more."
90
"It is well there is no one without fault for he would not have a friend in the world. He would seem to belong to a different species."
78
"True resistance begins with people confronting pain... and wanting to do something to change it."
73
"Dominator culture has tried to keep us all afraid, to make us choose safety instead of risk, sameness instead of diversity. Moving through that fear, finding out what connects us, revelling in our differences; this is the process that brings us closer, that gives us a world of shared values, of meaningful community."
72
"The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize."
70
"A generous heart is always open, always ready to receive our going and coming. In the midst of such love we need never fear abandonment. This is the most precious gift true love offers - the experience of knowing we always belong."
70
"Maybe by his second year in Hogwarts, Harry Potter will learn the trick to making a movie this good, but don't bet on it. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring is one of the best films of the year."
Will,
65
"I believe that nothing comes of nothing, even in Shakespeare. I wanted to know where he got the matter he was working with and what he did with that matter."
65
"Quotations in my work are like wayside robbers who leap out armed and relieve the stroller of his conviction."
64
"They make glorious shipwreck who are lost in seeking worlds."
62
"Not content to have the audience in the palm of his hand, he goes one further and clinches his fist."
61
"Love is a combination of care, commitment, knowledge, responsibility, respect and trust."
61
"Women will only be truly sexually liberated when we arrive at a place where we can see ourselves as having sexual value and agency irrespective of whether of not we are the objects of male desire."
61
"Myth is neither a lie nor a confession: it is an inflexion."
60
"In prosperity, our friends know us; in adversity, we know our friends."
58
"If we knew each other's secrets, what comforts we should find."
57
"Michael Taylor is not being executed for homicide. Michael Taylor is being executed for raping a white female."
56
"I've been asked about this constantly, and I compare it to how if you're walking down the street and some schizo guy comes up to you and vomits on you: You wouldn't be hurt by that, you'd just think it's weird."
56
"Of the female black authors, I really like Morrison's early books a lot. But she's really become so much a clone of Faulkner. He did it better."
55
"The industrial revolution has tended to produce everywhere great urban masses that seem to be increasingly careless of ethical standards."
54
"A determined soul will do more with a rusty monkey wrench than a loafer will accomplish with all the tools in a machine shop."
52
"His style has the desperate jauntiness of an orchestra fiddling away for dear life on a sinking ship."
52
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