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Quotes by Critic
"Man tells his aspiration in his God; but in his demon he shows his depth of experience."
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"When people conclude that all is futile, then the absurd becomes the norm."
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"So that what you tend to see is someone like a Rush Limbaugh, he's the classic case because he's the most successful, he didn't sort of like come out of his mother's womb with the highest ratings in the country."
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"Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater."
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"For the theatre one needs long arms; it is better to have them too long than too short. An artiste with short arms can never, never make a fine gesture."
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"Dumbo... makes me cry. Every single time and in the exact same spot. I just have a special affection for Dumbo."
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"But the fact is, most people are not going to be rich someday."
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"We seem to be a long way off from the kind of Fascism which we behold in Italy today, but we are not so far from the kind of Fascism which Mussolini preached in Italy before he assumed power, and we are slowly approaching the conditions which made Fascism there possible."
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"We find many things to which the prohibition of them constitutes the only temptation."
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"Maybe if you and ten of your friends could pool your savings and borrow some money and actually buy some obscure station in Sonoma, and then take some chances and have some fun."
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"The supreme satisfaction is to be able to despise one's neighbor and this fact goes far to account for religious intolerance. It is evidently consoling to reflect that the people next door are headed for hell."
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"Literature is without proofs. By which it must be understood that it cannot prove, not only what it says, but even that it is worth the trouble of saying it."
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"It's much easier to wear a Chairman Mao button and shake your fists in the air and all that, then to actually read the Communist manifesto and things like that and actually become involved in politics."
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"The only result of our present system - unless we reverse the drift - must be the gradual extension of the fascist sector and the gradual disappearance of the system of free enterprise under a free representative government."
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"Essays, entitled critical, are epistles addressed to the public, through which the mind of the recluse relieves itself of its impressions."
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"The trouble with us in America isn't that the poetry of life has turned to prose, but that it has turned to advertising copy."
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"NBC anchor Brian Williams is a standup comic in disguise."
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"Nothing ever quite dies, it just comes back in a different form."
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"Because Hightower's problem, among other things, is that advertisers would be a lot less interested in his show than in Limbaugh's, even if they have similar ratings, because of what Hightower is saying."
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"It gradually dawned upon me that there was no one more difficult to please than my mother."
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"Censorship is to art as lynching is to justice."
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"Highly educated bores are by far the worst; they know so much, in such fiendish detail, to be boring about."
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"Science is always discovering odd scraps of magical wisdom and making a tremendous fuss about its cleverness."
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"Shakespeare wrote great plays that we're still watching all these years later. Charlie Chaplin made great comedies and they are still as funny today as they ever were."
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