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Quotes by Critic
"I can't forgive my friends for dying; I don't find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing."
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"Love in marriage should be the accomplishment of a beautiful dream, and not, as it too often is, the end."
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"I am strongly convinced that the people or society is the best and the most unerring critic."
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"A hypocrite despises those whom he deceives, but has no respect for himself. He would make a dupe of himself too, if he could."
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"It really is impossible not to like him. His success was his failure."
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"Choosing to be honest is the first step in the process of love. There is no practitioner of love who deceives. Once the choice has been made to be honest, then the next step on love's path is communication."
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"The least pain in our little finger gives us more concern and uneasiness than the destruction of millions of our fellow-beings."
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"If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory."
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"It is the gossip columnist's business to write about what is none of his business."
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"I have studied many philosophers and many cats. The wisdom of cats is infinitely superior."
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"We are born knowing nothing and with much striving we learn but a little; yet all the while we are bound by laws that hearken to no plea of ignorance, and measure out their rewards and punishments with calm indifference."
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"Masses of the people think that feminism is always the only about women seeking to be equal to men. Their misunderstanding of feminist politics reflects the reality that most folks learn about feminism from patriarchal mass media."
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"The trouble with us in America isn't that the poetry of life has turned to prose, but that it has turned to advertising copy."
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"He who goes against the fashion is himself its slave."
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"Usually adult males who are unable to make emotional connections with the women they chose to be intimate with are frozen in time, unable to allow themselves to love for fear that the loved one will abandon them."
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"Highly educated bores are by far the worst; they know so much, in such fiendish detail, to be boring about."
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"Feminism is the struggle to end sexist oppression. Therefore, it is necessarily a struggle to eradicate the ideology of domination that permeates Western culture on various levels, as well as a commitment to reorganizing society so that the self-development of people can take precedence over imperialism, economic expansion, and material desires."
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"Individualism is rather like innocence; there must be something unconscious about it."
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"If a person has no delicacy he has you in his power."
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"The practice of love offers no place of safety. We risk loss, hurt, pain. We risk being acted upon by forces outside our control."
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"One writes to make a home for oneself, on paper, in time and in others' minds."
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"The difference between the vanity of a Frenchman and an Englishman seems to be this: The one thinks everything right that is French the other thinks everything wrong that is not English."
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"The taste of people with large bank accounts tends not to be on the cutting edge."
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"Many people think that virtue consists of severity towards others."
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"The whiteness celebrated in Paris is Burning is not just any old brand of whiteness but rather that brutal imperial ruling-class capitalist patriarchal whiteness that presents itself -its way of life- as the only meaningful life there is. What could be more reassuring to a white public fearful that marginalized disenfranchised black folks might rise any day now make revolutionary black liberation struggle a reality than a documentary affirming that colonized, victimized, exploited black folks, are all too willing to be complicit in perpetuating the fantasy that ruling-class white culture is the quintessential site of unrestricted joy, freedom, power and pleasure."
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"Few things tend more to alienate friendship than a want of punctuality in our engagements. I have known the breach of a promise to dine or sup to break up more than one intimacy."
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"The mutual practice of giving and receiving is an everyday ritual when we know true love."
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"None but those who are happy in themselves can make others so."
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"The wounded child inside many males is a boy who, when he first spoke his truths, was silenced by paternal sadism, by a patriarchal world that did not want him to claim his true feelings. The wounded child inside many females is a girl who was taught from early childhood that she must become something other than herself, deny her true feelings, in order to attract and please others. When men and women punish each other for truth telling, we reinforce the notion that lies are better. To be loving we willingly hear the other's truth, and most important, we affirm the value of truth telling. Lies may make people feel better, but they do not help them to know love."
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