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Quotes by Critic
"No poem, not even Shakespeare or Milton or Chaucer, is ever strong enough to totally exclude every crucial precursor text or poem."
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"The two World Wars came in part, like much modern literature and art, because men, whose nature is to tire of everything in turn... tired of common sense and civilization."
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"Probably it is impossible for humor to be ever a revolutionary weapon. Candide can do little more than generate irony."
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"Courtney Love is a loose cannon. She says what she thinks. She's wild on the red carpet. You get the best sound bites from Courtney Love."
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"Well it is certainly the case that the poems - which were in fact published during Shakespeare's lifetime - are weird if they began or originated in this form, as I think they did, because the poems get out of control."
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"Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an architectonic one when it is built, and a textile one when it is woven."
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"No sane man can afford to dispense with debilitating pleasures; no ascetic can be considered reliably sane."
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"I want everybody who is watching to come to the Academy Awards with us. I'm going to pay for the bus."
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"I think we have to get beyond the idea that we have to categorize people."
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"Is it not in the most absolute simplicity that real genius plies its pinions the most wonderfully?"
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"Pacifist propaganda and the resolutions of the parliamentarians encouraged such treaties, and toward the end of the nineteenth century their number had increased considerably."
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"At 83 Shaw's mind was perhaps not quite as good as it used to be, but it was still better than anyone else's."
Mind,
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"Now a Protestant confronting a Catholic ghost is exactly Shakespeare's way of grappling with what was not simply a general social problem but one lived out in his own life."
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"Shakespeare is the true multicultural author. He exists in all languages. He is put on the stage everywhere. Everyone feels that they are represented by him on the stage."
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"Transportation made sublimation literal. It conveyed evil to another world."
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"Our existing media system today is the direct result of government laws and subsidies that created it."
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"You're not allowed to give yourself a nickname. This holds true in life as well as in poker."
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"The Italians always made good wine, but you had the impression they were friendly guys in straw hats running family vineyards with slaves or something so that the vino was never more than ten bucks a bottle."
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"Actors are the only honest hypocrites."
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"A disaster where marble has been substituted for imagination."
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"My personal philosophy is, you can be sure of nothing."
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"We grow with years more fragile in body, but morally stouter, and can throw off the chill of a bad conscience almost at once."
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"He played the king as if afraid someone else would play the ace."
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"The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose."
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"Only among people who think no evil can Evil monstrously flourish."
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"DeLillo never seems committed to me to what he is writing. Very nice surfaces, but he's got nothing underneath."
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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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"Beauty and the Beast became the first animated feature ever nominated for best picture."
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"Movies absorb our attention more completely, I think."
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