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Quotes by Critic
"Even though I wanted to experience all these things I was interested in, I couldn't get them. So I had to think critically and culturally about what was available."
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"To return to love, to get the love we always wanted but never had, to have the love we want but are not prepared to give, we seek romantic relationships. We believe these relationships, more than any other, will rescue and redeem us. True love does have the power to redeem but only if we are ready for redemption. Love saves us only if we want to be saved."
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"Let the devil catch you but by a single hair, and you are his forever."
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"A neurosis is a secret that you don't know you are keeping."
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"Conservative voters increasingly understand that the one legacy a president can leave is his judicial appointments."
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"One can drink too much, but one never drinks enough."
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"Key metaphors help determine what and how we perceive and how we think about our perceptions."
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"Genuine polemics approach a book as lovingly as a cannibal spices a baby."
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"Let a man's talents or virtues be what they may he will only feel satisfaction in his society as he is satisfied in himself."
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"The only impeccable writers are those who never wrote."
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"I believe that the responsibility of the winemaker is to take that fruit and get it into the bottle as the most natural and purest expression of that vineyard, of the grape varietal or blend, and of the vintage."
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"The amateur is very rare in French literature - as rare as he is common in our own."
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"In pure literature, the writers of the eighteenth century achieved, indeed, many triumphs; but their great, their peculiar, triumphs were in the domain of thought."
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"She wanted me to remember that pleasure is political--for the capacity to relax and play renews the spirit and makes it possible for us to come to the work of writing clearer, ready for the journey. (bell hooks about Toni Cade Bambara)"
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"The true humanist maintains a just balance between sympathy and selection."
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"Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater."
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"By the end of the seventies the feared yet desired black male body had become as objectified as it was during slavery, only a seemingly positive twist had been added to the racist sexist objectification: the black male body had become the site for the personification of everyone's desire."
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"It is obvious that many women have appropriated feminism to serve their own ends, especially those white women who have been at the forefront of the movement; but rather than resigning myself to this appropriation I choose to re-appropriate the term "feminism, to focus on the fact that to be "feminist in any authentic sense of the term is to want for all people, female and male, liberation from sexist role patterns, domination, and oppression."
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"After 27 years, I walked out of my first one a few months ago. Black Sheep with Chris Farley."
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"It's amazing how, age after age, in country after country, and in all languages, Shakespeare emerges as incomparable."
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"Indolence is a delightful but distressing state. We must be doing something to be happy."
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"Curiously enough, it seems to be only in describing a mode of language which does not mean what it says that one can actually say what one means."
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"If I despised myself, it would be no compensation if everyone saluted me, and if I respect myself, it does not trouble me if others hold me lightly."
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"What the world needs now is liberated men who have the qualities Silverstein cites, men who are 'empathetic and strong, autonomous and connected, responsible to self, to family and friends, to society, and capable of understanding how those responsibilities are, ultimately, inseparable.' Men need feminist thinking. It it the theory that supports their spiritual evolution and their shift away from the patriarchal model. Patriarchy is destroying the well-being of men, taking their lives daily."
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"The person whose doors I enter with most pleasure, and quit with most regret, never did me the smallest favor."
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"Hope is the best possession. None are completely wretched but those who are without hope. Few are reduced so low as that."
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"The assumption must be that those who can see value only in tradition, or versions of it, deny man's ability to adapt to changing circumstances."
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"Yet Aristotle's excellence of substance, so far from being associated with the grand style, is associated with something that at times comes perilously near jargon."
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"Women have been taught that, for us, the earth is flat, and that if we venture out, we will fall off the edge. Some of us have ventured out nevertheless, and so far we have not fallen off. It is my faith, my feminist faith, that we will not."
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"Authors are sometimes like tomcats: They distrust all the other toms but they are kind to kittens."
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"The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope."
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"The true picture of the past flits by. The past can be seized only as an image which flashes up at the instant when it can be recognized and is never seen again."
Past,
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