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Quotes by Critic
"Also, the commercial media in a superior position, really, to any other corporate lobby, because where would people hear about commercial media or corporate media criticism, where would they hear criticism of them other than in the commercial media?"
4
"The great thing about The Clash of course is that they keep searching for answers beyond that."
4
"Transportation made sublimation literal. It conveyed evil to another world."
4
"There is no life to be found in violence. Every act of violence brings us closer to death. Whether it's the mundane violence we do to our bodies by overeating toxic food or drink or the extreme violence of child abuse, domestic warfare, life-threatening poverty, addiction, or state terrorism."
4
"A generous heart is always open, always ready to receive our going and coming. In the midst of such love we need never fear abandonment. This is the most precious gift true love offers - the experience of knowing we always belong."
4
"The way to get on in the world is to be neither more nor less wise, neither better nor worse than your neighbours."
4
"It is better to be able neither to read nor write than to be able to do nothing else."
4
"The person whose doors I enter with most pleasure, and quit with most regret, never did me the smallest favor."
4
"Fascism is not the result of dictatorship."
4
"Popular in our time, unpopular in his. So runs the stereotype of rejected genius."
4
"The measure of choosing well, is, whether a man likes and finds good in what he has chosen."
4
"Drudgery is as necessary to call out the treasures of the mind, as harrowing and planting those of the earth."
4
"The function of literature, through all its mutations, has been to make us aware of the particularity of selves, and the high authority of the self in its quarrel with its society and its culture. Literature is in that sense subversive."
4
"Gertrude Stein really thought of Hemingway as frail. He almost married Stein."
4
"Dominator culture has tried to keep us all afraid, to make us choose safety instead of risk, sameness instead of diversity. Moving through that fear, finding out what connects us, revelling in our differences; this is the process that brings us closer, that gives us a world of shared values, of meaningful community."
4
"The ordinary man looking at a mountain is like an illiterate person confronted with a Greek manuscript."
Man,
3
"We grow with years more fragile in body, but morally stouter, and can throw off the chill of a bad conscience almost at once."
3
"I am convinced that when the history of international law comes to be written centuries hence, it will be divided into two periods: the first being from the earliest times to the end of the nineteenth century, and the second beginning with the Hague Conference."
3
"Shakespeare will not make us better, and he will not make us worse, but he may teach us how to overhear ourselves when we talk to ourselves... he may teach us how to accept change in ourselves as in others, and perhaps even the final form of change."
3
"I just feel tired now if people are shocked. If it's not for you, just don't bloody watch it."
3
"Be fond of the man who jests at his scars, if you like; but never believe he is being on the level with you."
3
"Commercials on television are similar to sex and taxes; the more talk there is about them, the less likely they are to be curbed."
3
"I had the great good fortune to interview Peggy Lee. Her memories of working with Walt Disney and his team were warm and upbeat."
3
"The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose."
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