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Quotes by Critic
"It is better to be able neither to read nor write than to be able to do nothing else."
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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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"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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"The biggest hurdle to writing Fargo Rock City was that I couldn't afford a home computer - I had to get a new job so I could buy a computer. It could all change though. In five years, I could be back at some daily newspaper, which wouldn't be so bad."
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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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"The perfect joys of heaven do not satisfy the cravings of nature."
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"You're not allowed to give yourself a nickname. This holds true in life as well as in poker."
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"With a very few exceptions, every word in the French vocabulary comes straight from the Latin."
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"Those who set out to serve both God and Mammon soon discover that there isn't a God."
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"We grow with years more fragile in body, but morally stouter, and can throw off the chill of a bad conscience almost at once."
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"A neurosis is a secret that you don't know you are keeping."
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"The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal."
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"Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves."
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"Here we are in the 70's when everything really is horrible and it really stinks. The mass media, everything on television everything everywhere is just rotten. You know it's just really boring and really evil, ugly and worse."
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"I'll tell you, I think that the Internet has provided an enormous boost to film criticism by giving people an opportunity to self publish or to find sites that are friendly."
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"But as we shall see, Roosevelt, through a combination of events and influences, fell deeper and deeper into the toils of various revolutionary operators, not because he was interested in revolution but because he was interested in votes."
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"I'm very grateful to Jennifer Lopez, because I have something to talk about for the last couple of years."
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"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."
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"If a movie is really working, you forget for two hours your Social Security number and where your car is parked. You are having a vicarious experience. You are identifying, in one way or another, with the people on the screen."
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"It was a secular cathedral, dedicated to the rites of travel."
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"Every man has three characters - that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has."
Man,
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"I think that probably the - I don't give quotes to studios. They have to get those out of the paper or from television. So they wouldn't have had my quote opening day."
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"Male supremacy is fused into the language, so that every sentence both heralds and affirms it."
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