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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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Fear of error which everything recalls to me at every moment of the flight of my ideas, this mania for control, makes…
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A solitary maple on a woodside flames in single scarlet, recalls nothing so much as the daughter of a noble house dressed…
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It is already possible to imagine a society in which the majority of the population, that is to say, its laborers, will…
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Meditation is that exercise of the mind by which it recalls a known truth,-as some kinds of creatures do their food; to…
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This attempt to ban smoking is an example of social engineering on a vast scale. Such massive intervention in the private lives…
— Unknown Author
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Reckoned physiologically, everything ugly weakens and afflicts man. It recalls decay, danger, impotence; he actually suffers a loss of energy in its…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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The near stillness recalls what is forgotten, extinct angels.
— Georg Trakl
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An Islamic writer recalls her joy in the clothes she wore as a young girl at a wedding: They were always in…
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Visitation Street is urban opera writ large. Gritty and magical, filled with mystery, poetry and pain, Ivy Pochoda’s voice recalls Richard Price,…
— Dennis Lehane
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In short, Beauty is everywhere. It is not that she is lacking to our eye, but our eyes which fail to perceive…
— Auguste Rodin
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I give a damn if any fan recalls my legacy, I'm trying to live life in the sight of GOD's memory.
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When I left the theater… I was thinking that I’d seen a classic of American dance. It confers a mythic dimension on…
— Arlene Croce
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