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Quotes by Critic
"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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"Genocide begins, however improbably, in the conviction that classes of biological distinction indisputably sanction social and political discrimination."
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"Men have defined the parameters of every subject. All feminist arguments, however radical in intent or consequence, are with or against assertions or premises implicit in the male system, which is made credible or authentic by the power of men to name."
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"A person who has sympathy for mankind in the lump, faith in its future progress, and desire to serve the great cause of this progress, should be called not a humanist, but a humanitarian, and his creed may be designated as humanitarianism."
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"Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is ignorant."
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"I am utterly bored by celebrity interviews. Most celebrities are devoid of interest."
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"To give a reason for anything is to breed a doubt of it."
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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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"The gift that has been given to me says much about our capacity for great compassion and generosity, and I hope it sends an inspiring message to others about the importance of organ donation."
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"It seems not to have been written. It is the quintessence of life. It is the basic truth."
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"We grow tired of everything but turning others into ridicule, and congratulating ourselves on their defects."
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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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"Agatha Christie has given more pleasure in bed than any other woman."
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"Genuine polemics approach a book as lovingly as a cannibal spices a baby."
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"I keep saying the word "weird" over and over again, but it's the only way I can describe it."
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"I encountered among my comrades the most varied human traits, from frankness to reserve, from goodness, uprightness and kindness, to brutality and baseness."
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"The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much."
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"We may be willing to tell a story twice never to hear it more than once."
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"Man is a gaming animal. He must always be trying to get the better in something or other."
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"Nothing they design ever gets in the way of a work of art."
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"The immature artist imitates. Mature artists steal."
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