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Hari Kunzru has 27 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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In good novelistic fashion, the discovery I’ve made is that it’s complicated. I think that’s one of good things about exploring these…
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Critchley and Webster’s fierce, witty exploration of Hamlet makes most other writing about Shakespeare seem simpleminded.
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Several times in my life I've gone through long periods without sex or any other kind of physical contact. The hunger it…
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I tried to take seriously the idea that if you tortured language you might arrive at some new truth. Later it became…
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I can see a version of my life where it all becomes meaningless. On a good day, writing seems noble. Other times,…
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I think it's important for all culturally literate people to understand the technological substrate of new developments.
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I'm fascinated by the emergence of a global class. They're highly mobile; they reject the idea of place.
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In my early teens, science fiction and fantasy had an almost-total hold over my imagination. Their outcast status was part of their…
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Intellectuals who live in Hungary, or who wish to work or lecture there, are extremely circumspect in their criticism.
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There's an explosion of Indian fiction of all kinds, from military thrillers to chicklit. I think that's exciting.
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There's nothing New York likes more than a thing. Or a place. Or a place that's a thing. Or a thing that…
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When I try to understand somebody, create a character, I fall into them. When I think writers are telling me what to…
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Well, I am not 100 percent sure of the definition of polemic, but it wasn't meant to convince anybody of anything.
— Art Spiegelman
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In good novelistic fashion, the discovery I’ve made is that it’s complicated. I think that’s one of good things about exploring these…
— Hari Kunzru
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Again, men tell us that our preaching should be positive and not negative, that we can preach the truth without attacking error.…
— John Gresham Machen
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The camera can photograph thought. It's better than a paragraph of sweet polemic.
— Dirk Bogarde
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Innovation, being avant garde, is always polemic.
— Ferran Adria
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Even a polemic has some justification if one considers that my own first poetic experiments began during a dictatorship and mark the…
— Salvatore Quasimodo
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The two main ideas that run through all of my writing, whether it be literary criticism or political polemic are these: I…
— H. L. Mencken
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Passionate and forcefully argued, Tar Sands is a wake-up call not just to Canadians but to the wider world to take a…
— Margaret MacMillan
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Any work of architecture that has with it some discussion, some polemic, I think is good. It shows that people are interested,…
— Richard Meier
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there's always a polemic in my clothes.
— Vivienne Westwood
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But I still read Shaw on a regular basis. What I love is the nakedness of the polemic and the irresistible good…
— Tony Kushner
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In the critic's vocabulary, the word "precursor" is indispensable, but it should be cleansed of all connotations of polemic or rivalry. The…
— Jorge Luis Borges
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