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Quotes by Critic
"There is that smaller world which is the stage, and that larger stage which is the world."
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"The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination."
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"If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory."
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"When Louis XIV assumed the reins of government France suddenly and wonderfully came to her maturity; it was as if the whole nation had burst into splendid flower."
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"The product of the scientific imagination is a new vision of relations - like that of artistic imagination."
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"By the end of the seventies the feared yet desired black male body had become as objectified as it was during slavery, only a seemingly positive twist had been added to the racist sexist objectification: the black male body had become the site for the personification of everyone's desire."
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"It is obvious that many women have appropriated feminism to serve their own ends, especially those white women who have been at the forefront of the movement; but rather than resigning myself to this appropriation I choose to re-appropriate the term "feminism, to focus on the fact that to be "feminist in any authentic sense of the term is to want for all people, female and male, liberation from sexist role patterns, domination, and oppression."
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""Old times" never come back and I suppose it's just as well. What comes back is a new morning every day in the year, and that's better."
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"Just about this time, when in imagination I was so great a warrior, I had good use in real life for more strength, as I was no longer taken to school by the nurse, but instead had myself to protect my brother, two years my junior."
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"To ask advice is in nine cases out of ten to tout for flattery."
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"We must rid this nation of the United Nations, which provides the communist conspiracy with a headquarters here on our own shores, and which actually makes it impossible for the United States to form its own decisions about its conduct and policies in Europe and Asia."
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"Unfortunately, I'm not a person that's always capable of living up to the Boy Scout philosophy."
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"Everyone is looking for the sure thing. They are looking to hedge their bet. They think the way to do that is to go with a proven quantity, a remake of something you have already seen. That is their mindset."
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"A scholar is like a book written in a dead language. It is not every one that can read in it."
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"I liked Nicole Kidman because she is so fashionable she can do less is more. It was very, very simple, but it was so chic. Some people thought she looked washed out, I didn't at all."
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"Agatha Christie has given more pleasure in bed than any other woman."
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"It's amazing how, age after age, in country after country, and in all languages, Shakespeare emerges as incomparable."
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"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."
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"Erotica is simply high-class pornography; better produced, better conceived, better executed, better packaged, designed for a better class of consumer."
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"Genuine polemics approach a book as lovingly as a cannibal spices a baby."
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"Most people in this country believe that the American Communist Party and its dupes are the chief internal enemy of our economic system and our form of government. This is a serious mistake."
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"The first prerogative of an artist in any medium is to make a fool of himself."
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"It comes from the likes of you! Take what you can get! Grab the chances as they come along! Act in hallways! Sing in doorways! Dance in cellars!"
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"He who observes etiquette but objects to lying is like someone who dresses fashionably but wears no vest."
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"Fashion is like the ashes left behind by the uniquely shaped flames of the fire, the trace alone revealing that a fire actually took place."
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"When the government allocates monopoly rights to frequency, and there are only a handful in each community, it's picking the winners in the competition."
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"Because I don't give the studios advanced quotes or an advanced look at my reviews. I think the readers deserve to read my reviews before the studios do."
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"The great composer does not set to work because he is inspired, but becomes inspired because he is working."
Work,
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"Our struggle for liberation has significance only if it takes place within a feminist movement that has as its fundamental goal the liberation of all people."
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"The critic is the only independent source of information. The rest is advertising."
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"Feminist effort to end patriarchal domination should be of primary concern precisely because it insists on the eradication of exploitation and oppression in the family context and in all other intimate relationships. It is that political movement which most radically addresses the person " the personal " citing the need for the transformation of self, of relationships, so that we might be better able to act in a revolutionary manner, challenging and resisting domination, transforming the world outside the self."
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"It is the gossip columnist's business to write about what is none of his business."
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"A grave blockhead should always go about with a lively one - they show one another off to the best advantage."
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