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Poets and novelists and playwrights make themselves, against terrible resistances, give over what the rest of us keep safely locked within our…
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Writing cannot be done in a state of desirelessness,
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Malice remains its animating impulse.
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Journalists justify their treachery in various ways according to their temperaments. The more pompous talk about freedom of speech and ‘the public’s…
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The writer, like the murderer, needs a motive,
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The ‘I’ character in journalism is almost pure invention. Unlike the ‘I’ of autobiography, who is meant to be seen as a…
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If you scratch a great photograph, you find two things; a painting and a photograph.
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The dominant and most deep-dyed trait of the journalist is his timorousness. Where the novelist fearlessly plunges into the water of self-exposure,…
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Fidelity to the subject's thought and to his characteristic way of expressing himself is the sine qua non of journalistic quotation.
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Analysts keep having to pick away at the scab that the patient tries to form between himself and the analyst to cover…
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This is what it is the business of the artist to do. Art is theft, art is armed robbery, art is not…
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Every journalist who is not too stupid or too full of himself to notice what is going on knows that what he…
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Big Ben just kept building up. It ended up coming off the field. It kept taking over. Superman kept taking over Clark…
— Ben Roethlisberger
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I never understood why Clark Kent was so hell bent on keeping Lois Lane in the dark.
— Audrey Niffenegger
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At first I thought, if I were Superman, a perfect secret identity would be "Clark Kent, Dentist," because you could save money…
— Jack Handey
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Clark Kent, I suppose, had a little bit of Harold Lloyd in him.
— Joe Shuster
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The ‘I’ character in journalism is almost pure invention. Unlike the ‘I’ of autobiography, who is meant to be seen as a…
— Janet Malcolm
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Clark Kent grew not only out of my private life, but also out of Joe Shuster's. As a high school student, I…
— Jerry Siegel
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The baptism of the spirit will do for you, what a phone booth did for Clark Kent, it will change you into…
— Rod Parsley
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My friends call me Clark Kent: I'm known to change in phone booths.
— Dylan Lauren
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On losing the opportunity to star in Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman 'You know what? It happened for the…
— Kevin Sorbo
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When you look at Clark Kent when he's working at the Daily Planet, he's a reporter. He doesn't fly through the air…
— Gene Simmons
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Superman didn't become Superman. Superman was born Superman. When Superman wakes up in the morning, he's Superman. His alter ego is Clark…
— Quentin Tarantino
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..you wanted to be the Superman who was never Clark Kent
— Leonard Cohen
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