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Quotes by Critic
"Man tells his aspiration in his God; but in his demon he shows his depth of experience."
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"By going to the movies, and because of other things, too, going to college, making a wide variety of friends, moving around traveling, I became a lot more open-minded than the heritage I was born into might have suggested."
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"The sheer complexity of writing a play always had dazzled me. In an effort to understand it, I became a critic."
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"To give a reason for anything is to breed a doubt of it."
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"When Louis XIV assumed the reins of government France suddenly and wonderfully came to her maturity; it was as if the whole nation had burst into splendid flower."
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"When we are taught that safety lies always with sameness, then difference, of any kind, will appear as a threat."
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"But no one can praise Roosevelt for doing this and then insist that he restored our traditional political and economic systems to their former vitality."
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"There is no joy so great as that of reporting that a good play has come to town."
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"Photography does not create eternity, as art does; it embalms time, rescuing it simply from its proper corruption."
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"Grace has been defined as the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul."
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"When people say 'love to hate', they actually mean 'love to be appalled by' - if they truly hated them, they'd never repeat a catch phrase."
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"There is no prejudice so strong as that which arises from a fancied exemption from all prejudice."
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"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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"Among the delights of Summer were picnics to the woods."
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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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"Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands of others!"
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"The measure of choosing well, is, whether a man likes and finds good in what he has chosen."
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"Today a reader, tomorrow a leader."
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"A disaster where marble has been substituted for imagination."
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"Let the devil catch you but by a single hair, and you are his forever."
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