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Russell Smith has 39 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Calls for the simplification of abstract or allusive art have always come from governments suspicious of artists themselves. This is why totalitarian…
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I would rather be nuts than unattractive.
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There is something insouciant and boyish about the sockless ankle in summer.
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What makes a publisher decide to market a book to a particular audience is not the subject matter but the style.
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The only thing that makes a book YA is that it is about teenagers, and it is written in a very conventional,…
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The YA category is an entirely new one, and seems to have more to do with readability than with age group or…
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Increasingly, to dismiss any popular artistic style is seen as the worst kind of snobbery. And snobbery, it goes without saying, is…
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Indeed, the whole point of the man bun, I have surmised, is to assert a high proficiency at yoga. There are no…
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I have argued about the future of fiction with jaded novelists, far-seeing postmodernists, technologists, television critics. The argument that future generations will…
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Here is a fundamental conflict in educated society: We are not supposed to value beauty so highly, and yet who can defend…
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Fashion has always been in conflict with convention. Style involves some knowledge of both. But you can pretty much forget these seasonal…
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My son craves picture books about Transformers and Ninja Turtles and the Hulk; they show one fantastic creature smashing or zapping another…
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I am as frustrated with society as a pyromaniac in a petrified forest.
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A film is a petrified fountain of thought.
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I have found a paper of mine among some others in which I call architecture 'petrified music.' Really there is something in…
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New York... is a city of geometric heights, a petrified desert of grids and lattices, an inferno of greenish abstraction under a…
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How many thorns of human nature - hard, sharp, lifeless protuberances that tear and wound us, narrow prejudices, bristling conceits that repel…
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Why are you so petrified of silence, here can you handle this? Did you think about your bills, your ex, your deadlines…
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He [Winston Churchill] is a man suffering from petrified adolescence.
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The essential characteristic of Western civilization that distinguishes it from the arrested and petrified civilizations of the East was and is its…
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