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Wisdom is for statues. Humor uncaps our inhibitions, unleashes our energies, seals friendships, patches hurts. Laughing is probably the most alive you…
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I never accepted why there should be some invisible, wavy cutoff line separating Great Fiction from phosphorescent beauties and dollhouse miniatures, novels…
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I root for hurricanes. When, courtesy of the Weather Channel, I see one forming in the ocean off the coast of Africa,…
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It's the contemporary woman that movies don't know what to do with, other than bathe her in a bridal glow in romantic…
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Everyone is entitled to his own nostalgia.
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Popular culture no longer craves archangels and new dawns. Pop culture traffics in vampires and deads of night.
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Telling writers to shut up is a sure way to keep them talking.
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High expectations weren't nurtured in my neck of nowhere back then - children weren't fawned over from an early age as 'gifted'…
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I understand that one of the purposes of bipartisanship is to cram something difficult and necessary down the American people's gullets for…
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My high-school papers, my college-application essays, read like Norman Mailer packed in a crunchy-peanut-butter sandwich.
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A lost election can have the jolt of a drop through the gallows door, leading to a dark night of the soul…
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A new political-entertainment class has moved into the noisy void once occupied by the sage pontiffs of yore, a class just as…
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Satire is tragedy plus time. You give it enough time, the public, the reviewers will allow you to satirize it. Which is…
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Peer reviewers go for orthodoxy ... Many of the great 19th-century discoveries were made by men who had independent wealth-Charles Darwin is…
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Reviewers, with some rare exceptions, are a most stupid and malignant race. As a bankrupt thief turns thief-taker in despair, so an…
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Under true peer-review...a panel of reviewers must accept a study before it can be published in a scientific journal. If the reviewers…
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Book reviewers are little old ladies of both sexes.
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And it does no harm to repeat, as often as you can, 'Without me the literary industry would not exist: the publishers,…
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Some of the reviewers wanted less. Some wanted lots more. Some wanted lots more of something else. But these strips are exactly…
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In fact, some reviewers have said that as they got into the story they forgot that the protagonist is a black woman.…
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I didn't expect the book to sell in the first place. I was hoping for a quick and merciful death at the…
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I have been extremely lucky with reviewers and critics throughout my career.
— Kate Smith
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I thought I was attractive when I shot 'My Big Fat Greek Wedding.' Studio executives and movie reviewers let me know I…
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I've sold too many books to get good reviews anymore. There's a lot of jealousy, because [reviewers] think they can write a…
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