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Quotes by Critic
"When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest."
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"Only when manhood is dead - and it will perish when ravaged femininity no longer sustains it - only then will we know what it is to be free."
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"Aphorisms are bad for novels. They stick in the reader's teeth."
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"Visionary feminism is a wise and loving politics. It is rooted in the love of male and female being, refusing to privilege one over the other. The soul of feminist politics is the commitment to ending patriarchal domination of women and men, girls and boys. Love cannot exist in any relationship that is based on domination and coercion. Males cannot love themselves in patriarchal culture if their very self-definition relies on submission to patriarchal rules. When men embrace feminist thinking and preactice, which emphasizes the value of mutual growth and self-actualization in all relationships, their emotional well-being will be enhanced. A genuine feminist politics always brings us from bondage to freedom, from lovelessness to loving."
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"Gertrude Stein really thought of Hemingway as frail. He almost married Stein."
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"A novel is a static thing that one moves through; a play is a dynamic thing that moves past one."
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"That which is not, shall never be; that which is, shall never cease to be. To the wise, these truths are self-evident."
Self,
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"They tell you that you'll lose your mind when you grow older. What they don't tell you is that you won't miss it very much."
Mind,
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"The common erotic project of destroying women makes it possible for men to unite into a brotherhood; this project is the only firm and trustworthy groundwork for cooperation among males and all male bonding is based on it."
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"Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns; I am thankful that thorns have roses."
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"The more worrying feature of the new global corporate structures is their capacity to devastate national labour markets by transferring their operations to cheaper locations overseas."
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"I'm a writer. Now I've started to be on television. I have a big mouth. And I have good TV teeth, they say."
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"I do my best not to have any expectations when I go into a movie because it's not fair."
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"Science is always discovering odd scraps of magical wisdom and making a tremendous fuss about its cleverness."
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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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"Immature artists imitate. Mature artists steal."
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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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"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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"Though the clown is often deadpan, he is a connoisseur of laughter."
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"The United States has made a massive effort since the end of the Second World War to secure the dominance of its films in foreign markets - an achievement generally pushed home politically, by writing clauses into various treaties and aid packages."
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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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"The camera introduces us to unconscious optics as does psychoanalysis to unconscious impulses."
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"The way to get on in the world is to be neither more nor less wise, neither better nor worse than your neighbours."
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"To get others to come into our ways of thinking, we must go over to theirs; and it is necessary to follow, in order to lead."
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"Criticism in the universities, I'll have to admit, has entered a phase where I am totally out of sympathy with 95% of what goes on. It's Stalinism without Stalin."
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"If you fight back and get hit, it hurts a little while; if you don't fight back it hurts forever."
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"If one were to take the bible seriously one would go mad. But to take the bible seriously, one must be already mad."
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"In the finest critics one hears the full cry of the human. They tell one why it matters to read."
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"In Fargo, they say, well, that's a job. How well do you get paid? For example, for this book I was written about in Entertainment Weekly, and it was kind of cool because my mom asked me if Entertainment Weekly was a magazine or a newspaper."
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