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Quotes by Critic
"When we are taught that safety lies always with sameness, then difference, of any kind, will appear as a threat."
39
"Being a Jew, one learns to believe in the reality of cruelty and one learns to recognize indifference to human suffering as a fact."
39
"Marxism is the opium of the intellectuals."
39
"Book writing is a little different because, in my case, my editor is a year younger than me and basically has the same sensibility as me."
39
"The biggest hurdle to writing Fargo Rock City was that I couldn't afford a home computer - I had to get a new job so I could buy a computer. It could all change though. In five years, I could be back at some daily newspaper, which wouldn't be so bad."
39
"With a very few exceptions, every word in the French vocabulary comes straight from the Latin."
39
"Cooper wrote a novel which is absolutely indistinguishable from Austen, completely from a female point of view, completely English, no sense that he was an American."
38
"In the finest critics one hears the full cry of the human. They tell one why it matters to read."
38
"While it was occasionally done here or there, nobody else had a figurehead like Walt doing it. Jack Warner wasn't on TV. Walt was the boss, but he had a real public profile and he used it to his advantage. And he became a household face."
38
"Saul Bellow never took my advice when he was my friend."
38
"The whole process of getting licenses to broadcast, which took place decades ago, was done behind closed doors by powerful lobbies, and wealthy commercial interests got all the licenses with no public input, no congressional input for that matter."
38
"Fame is fun, money is useful, celebrity can be exciting, but finally life is about optimal well-being and how we achieve that in dominator culture, in a greedy culture, in a culture that uses so much of the world's resources. How do men and women, boys and girls, live lives of compassion, justice and love? And I think that's the visionary challenge for feminism and all other progressive movements for social change."
38
"But I did not find any positive inspiration in my studies until I approached my nineteenth year."
38
"Democracy is now going forth on a crusade against imperialism."
38
"When somebody asks me what I do, I don't think I'd say critic. I say writer."
38
"A whole bunch of months passed and I didn't hear anything and then he emailed and asked if I could do a little piece on POD and Queens of the Stone Age."
38
"The movies that are made more thoughtfully or made or with more ambition often get just get drowned out by the noise."
38
"A book might be written on the injustice of the just."
38
"The gift that has been given to me says much about our capacity for great compassion and generosity, and I hope it sends an inspiring message to others about the importance of organ donation."
38
"When the French nation gradually came into existence among the ruins of the Roman civilization in Gaul, a new language was at the same time slowly evolved."
38
"The democratic idealist is prone to make light of the whole question of standards and leadership because of his unbounded faith in the plain people."
38
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