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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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How is freedom measured, in individuals as in nations? By the resistance which has to be overcome, by the effort it costs…
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There are some remarkable parallels between basketball and politics. Michael Jordan has already mastered the skill most needed for political success: how…
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Thus, while the mute creation downward bend Their sight, and to their earthly mother ten, Man looks aloft; and with erected eyes…
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Rama for you should mean the Path He trod, the ideal He held aloft, and the Ordinance He laid down. They are…
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The artist must raise the cup of his vision aloft to the gods in the high hope that they will pour into…
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Here above the farms and ranches of the Great Plains aviation lives up to the promise that inspired dreamers through the ages.…
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Someone once told me that children are like kites. You struggle just to get them in the air; they crash; you add…
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Most restaurants fail. The sad ones are stillborn. The mad ones flourish within the bustle and excitement of fame, notoriety, the thrill…
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After all, the world is not a stage-not to me: nor a theatre: nor a show-house of any sort. And art, especially…
— D. H. Lawrence
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If the British march By land or sea from the town to-night, Hang a lantern aloft in the belfry-arch Of the North-Church-tower,…
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If ye would go up high, then use your own legs! Do not get yourselves carried aloft; do not seat yourselves on…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Philosophy dwells aloft in the Temple of Science, the divinity of its inmost shrine; her dictates descend among men, but she herself…
— Thomas Carlyle
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