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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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"When I was 12 years old, someone took me to see Martha Graham. It was nothing like what I thought of as serious dancing and even then I knew I was having a great experience. It was as if somebody was moving through space like no one ever did before."
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"To ask advice is in nine cases out of ten to tout for flattery."
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"Just as a new scientific discovery manifests something that was already latent in the order of nature, and at the same time is logically related to the total structure of the existing science, so the new poem manifests something that was already latent in the order of words."
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"In my experience, if you have to keep the lavatory door shut by extending your left leg, it's modern architecture."
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"Hearts that are delicate and kind and tongues that are neither - these make the finest company in the world."
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"I begin to feel like most Americans don't understand the First Amendment, don't understand the idea of freedom of speech, and don't understand that it's the responsibility of the citizen to speak out."
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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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"At first sight experience seems to bury us under a flood of external objects, pressing upon us with a sharp and importunate reality, calling us out of ourselves in a thousand forms of action."
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"Photography does not create eternity, as art does; it embalms time, rescuing it simply from its proper corruption."
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"Grace has been defined as the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul."
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"Let us be lazy in everything, except in loving and drinking, except in being lazy."
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"Apart from a few simple principles, the sound and rhythm of English prose seem to me matters where both writers and readers should trust not so much to rules as to their ears."
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"Significantly, romantic friendships can coexist with the fact of partners' marrying because their reason for being is not to replace marriage but to open the possibility of sustained, committed true love existing among friends, and not just same-sex friends. No matter that our chosen relationship commitments change. Those of us who have long-term romantic friendships, some that have lasted longer than any of our marriages or partnerships, do not fear that these commitments will falter if we create primary bonds."
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"It is commonly agreed that children spend more hours per year watching television than in the classroom, and far less in actual conversation with their parents."
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"Judges were not the biggest issue for most voters in Georgia in 2002."
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"Not a single man on earth knows from his own experience the how and where of his birth, only from tradition, which is often very uncertain."
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"Television is now the dominant factor in the lives of too many American children."
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"Poor is the power of the lead that becomes bullets compared to the power of the hot metal that becomes types."
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"I am convinced that when the history of international law comes to be written centuries hence, it will be divided into two periods: the first being from the earliest times to the end of the nineteenth century, and the second beginning with the Hague Conference."
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"The security of which we speak is to be attained by the development of international law through an international organization based on the principles of law and justice."
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"The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal."
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"But as we shall see, Roosevelt, through a combination of events and influences, fell deeper and deeper into the toils of various revolutionary operators, not because he was interested in revolution but because he was interested in votes."
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"So it's a much more difficult issue to organize around, because you can't get media at all to make your case. And that's where cases tend to be made politically."
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"Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of admiration."
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"It was a secular cathedral, dedicated to the rites of travel."
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"English dramatic literature is, of course, dominated by Shakespeare; and it is almost inevitable that an English reader should measure the value of other poetic drama by the standards which Shakespeare has already implanted in his mind."
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"But the fact is, most people are not going to be rich someday."
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"All over the web there are some very good critics and it's become for people who are interested. It's become a very good way to get to reviews and involve yourself in discussions."
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"We define ourselves, in part, by the discriminations we make. The value of what we love is enriched by our understanding of what we dislike."
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