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Quotes by Critic
"Corporations are social organizations, the theater in which men and women realize or fail to realize purposeful and productive lives."
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"I gave up writing blurbs because you make one friend and 200 enemies."
31
"I see little of more importance to the future of our country and of civilization than full recognition of the place of the artist. If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him."
31
"I think there is a way to be formal and elegant and classy, but more modern. Brad Pitt has been changing it, and Will Smith has been doing it in his own way."
Will,
31
"Diplomacy is to do and say the nastiest things in the nicest way."
31
"Childbearing is glorified in part because women die from it."
31
"Many of our daydreams would darken into nightmares, were there a danger of their coming true!"
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"For me, forgiveness and compassion are always linked: how do we hold people accountable for wrongdoing and yet at the same time remain in touch with their humanity enough to believe in their capacity to be transformed?"
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"The two most common charges against the older fiction, that it pleased wickedly and that it taught nothing, had broken down before the discovery, except in illiberal sects, that the novel is fitted both for honest use and for pleasure."
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"I feel sorry for people who have to edit me. Which is why book writing is by far the most enjoyable. Really the only thing it's based on is whether it's good or not. No book editor, in my experience, is getting a manuscript and try to rewrite it."
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"The high point of civilization is that you can hate me and I can hate you but we develop an etiquette that allows us to deal with each other because if we acted solely upon our impulse we'd probably go to war."
31
"Theatre director: a person engaged by the management to conceal the fact that the players cannot act."
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"I long for the raised voice, the howl of rage or love."
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"All too often we think of community in terms of being with folks like ourselves: the same class, same race, same ethnicity, same social standing and the like..I think we need to be wary: we need to work against the danger of evoking something that we don't challenge ourselves to actually practice."
31
"An excellent job with a dubious undertaking, which is like saying it would be great if it wasn't awful."
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"After each war there is a little less democracy to save."
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"Men are distinguished from women by their commitment to do violence rather than to be victimized by it."
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"Great progress was made when arbitration treaties were concluded in which the contracting powers pledge in advance to submit all conflicts to an arbitration court, treaties which not only specify the composition of the court, but also its procedure."
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"As the mainstream media has become increasingly dependent on advertising revenues for support, it has become an anti-democratic force in society."
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"As far as a truly radical conscience, you have to take it as part of a larger thing, that it was sort of historical inevitability that with the coming of a leaguer society people would start to use drugs a lot more then they had before."
31
"It is possible that the contemplation of cruelty will not make us humane but cruel; that the reiteration of the badness of our spiritual condition will make us consent to it."
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"I had the great good fortune to interview Peggy Lee. Her memories of working with Walt Disney and his team were warm and upbeat."
30
"No account of the Renaissance can be complete without some notice of the attempt made by certain Italian scholars of the fifteenth century to reconcile Christianity with the religion of ancient Greece."
30
"Among pacifists it was above all the English who always insisted on the importance of disarmament. They said that the man in the street would not understand the kind of pacifism that neglected to demand immediate restriction of armaments."
30
"Undernourished, intelligence becomes like the bloated belly of a starving child: swollen, filled with nothing the body can use."
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"Philosophical theories or ideas, as points of view, instruments of criticism, may help us to gather up what might otherwise pass unregarded by us."
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