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Any historian of the literature of the modern age will take virtually for granted the adversary intention, the actually subversive intention, that…
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Literature is the human activity that make the fullest and most precise account of variousness, possibility, complexity, and difficulty.
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In the American Metaphysical, reality is always material reality, hard, resistant, unformed, impenetrable, and unpleasant.
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Ideology is not the product of thought; it is the habit or the ritual of showing respect for certain formulas to which,…
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What marks the artist is his power to shape the material of pain we all have.
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Being a Jew is like walking in the wind or swimming: you are touched at all points and conscious everywhere.
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The immature artist imitates. The mature artist steals.
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Probably it is impossible for humor to be ever a revolutionary weapon. Candide can do little more than generate irony.
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There is no connection between the political ideas of our educated class and the deep places of the imagination.
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Youth is a time when we find the books we give up but do not get over.
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If one defends the bourgeois, philistine virtues, one does not defend them merely from the demonism or bohemianism of the artist but…
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At the bottom of at least popular Marxism there has always been a kind of disgust with humanity as it is and…
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He disliked emotion, not because he felt lightly, but because he felt deeply.
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Sometimes a neighbor whom we have disliked a lifetime for his arrogance and conceit lets fall a single commonplace remark that shows…
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I've been hated by many, wanted by plenty, disliked by some, but confronted by none.
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I have always disliked the fierce competitive spirit embodied in that highly intellectual game.
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Football? Forget it. I didn't have that thing inside me where I wanted to smash against somebody and watch them break. I…
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I am not a romantic leading man anymore so I don't need to nurture that public image anymore. I can talk about…
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Actresses have more fear of being disliked. I, on the other hand, revel in it.
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I dont know of one group of people thats more disliked than politicians -- it may be the folks who gave us…
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There are two ways through life: the way of Nature, and the way of Grace. You have to choose which one you'll…
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I constantly meet people who are doubtful, generally without due reason, about their potential capacity [as mathematicians]. The first test is whether…
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