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Vincent Canby has 18 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Radio wasn't outside our lives. It coincided with and helped to shape our childhood and adolescence. As we slogged toward maturity, it…
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Hack fiction exploits curiosity without really satisfying it or making connections between it and anything else in the world.
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Good fiction reveals feeling, refines events, locates importance and, though its methods are as mysterious as they are varied, intensifies the experience…
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It is guaranteed to put all teeth on edge, including George Washington's, wherever they might be.
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Confession: When I went to see The Empire Strikes Back I found myself glancing at my watch. The Force is with us,…
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There's no doubt about it. Arcadia is Tom Stoppard's richest, most ravishing comedy to date, a play of wit, intellect, language, brio…
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Semi-Tough pokes fun in rambling fashion, but it is vulgar in intelligent ways and almost always amusing in its perceptions of befuddled…
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Nothing in Death Hunt makes a great deal of sense, though the scenery is rugged and the snowscapes beautiful.
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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…
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The chief role of the universities is to prolong adolescence into middle age, at which point early retirement ensures that we lack…
— J. G. Ballard
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What laughter is to childhood, sex is to adolescence.
— Martha Beck
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I feel like I flunked at adolescence really badly. I found it really difficult.
— Kate Beckinsale
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Apart from a period of crisis during my adolescence, when my voice was changing and I could not tame it - it…
— Andrea Bocelli
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I had been afraid of breast cancer, as I suspect most women are, from the time I hit adolescence. At that age,…
— Geraldine Brooks
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Adolescence is just one big walking pimple.
— Carol Burnett
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Elegance is not the prerogative of those who have just escaped from adolescence, but of those who have already taken possession of…
— Coco Chanel
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You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
— John Ciardi
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Perhaps it is better in this present world of ours that a revolutionary idea or invention instead of being helped and patted…
— Nikola Tesla
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At sixteen I was stupid, confused and indecisive. At twenty-five I was wise, self-confident, prepossessing and assertive. At forty-five I am stupid,…
— Jules Feiffer
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The meaningful role of the father of the bride was played out long before the church music began. It stretched across those…
— Tom Brokaw
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Radio wasn't outside our lives. It coincided with and helped to shape our childhood and adolescence. As we slogged toward maturity, it…
— Vincent Canby
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