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> [Horror need not always be a long-fanged gentleman in evening clothes or a dismembered corpse or a doctor who keeps a brain in his gold fish bowl. It may be a warm sunny day, the innocence of girlhood and hints…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vincent-canby/horror-need-not-always-be-a-long-fanged-gentleman-in-evening-clothes/)

[Vincent Canby](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vincent-canby/)

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## More by Vincent Canby

> [There's no doubt about it. Arcadia is Tom Stoppard's richest, most ravishing comedy to date, a play of wit, intellect, language, brio and, new…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vincent-canby/there-s-no-doubt-about-it-arcadia-is-tom-stoppard-s-richest-most/)

[Vincent Canby](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vincent-canby/)

> [Radio wasn't outside our lives. It coincided with and helped to shape our childhood and adolescence. As we slogged toward maturity, it also grew…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vincent-canby/radio-wasn-t-outside-our-lives-it-coincided-with-and-helped-to-shape/)

[Vincent Canby](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vincent-canby/)

> [Good fiction reveals feeling, refines events, locates importance and, though its methods are as mysterious as they are varied, intensifies the experience of living…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vincent-canby/good-fiction-reveals-feeling-refines-events-locates-importance-and/)

[Vincent Canby](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vincent-canby/)

> [When Uncle Bob (or Ted or Ray) promised to send a shooting star over the house to mark a young listener's birthday, the young…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vincent-canby/when-uncle-bob-or-ted-or-ray-promised-to-send-a-shooting-star-over/)

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> [It is guaranteed to put all teeth on edge, including George Washington's, wherever they might be.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vincent-canby/it-is-guaranteed-to-put-all-teeth-on-edge-including-george-washington/)

[Vincent Canby](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vincent-canby/)

> [Nothing in Death Hunt makes a great deal of sense, though the scenery is rugged and the snowscapes beautiful.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vincent-canby/nothing-in-death-hunt-makes-a-great-deal-of-sense-though-the-scenery/)

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> [The solemnity of the annual Nobel ceremonies in Stockholm with the cheerful bad taste of the grand opening of a shopping center in Los…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vincent-canby/the-solemnity-of-the-annual-nobel-ceremonies-in-stockholm-with-the/)

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> [“Lives—even the most carefully managed— are voids filled with echoes”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vincent-canby/lives-even-the-most-carefully-managed-are-voids-filled-with-echoes/)

[Vincent Canby](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vincent-canby/)

> [We are drawn to our television sets each April the way we are drawn to the scene of an accident.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vincent-canby/we-are-drawn-to-our-television-sets-each-april-the-way-we-are-drawn/)

[Vincent Canby](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vincent-canby/)

> [We are drawn to Twitter the way we are drawn to the scene of an accident.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vincent-canby/we-are-drawn-to-twitter-the-way-we-are-drawn-to-the-scene-of-an/)

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> [Like Godard, Tati is also remarkably appreciative of the odd beauty that can be revealed in the shapes, patterns and colors created by the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vincent-canby/like-godard-tati-is-also-remarkably-appreciative-of-the-odd-beauty/)

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> [Through the magic of motion pictures, someone who's never left Peoria knows the softness of a Paris spring, the color of a Nile sunset,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vincent-canby/through-the-magic-of-motion-pictures-someone-who-s-never-left-peoria/)

[Vincent Canby](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vincent-canby/)

> [Semi-Tough pokes fun in rambling fashion, but it is vulgar in intelligent ways and almost always amusing in its perceptions of befuddled people who…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vincent-canby/semi-tough-pokes-fun-in-rambling-fashion-but-it-is-vulgar-in/)

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> [In this land of unlimited opportunity, a place where, to paraphrase Woody Allen, any man or woman can realize greatness as a patient or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vincent-canby/in-this-land-of-unlimited-opportunity-a-place-where-to-paraphrase/)

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> [Hack fiction exploits curiosity without really satisfying it or making connections between it and anything else in the world.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vincent-canby/hack-fiction-exploits-curiosity-without-really-satisfying-it-or/)

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