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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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Even the classics that we read to our young children are full of wolves' fangs and burning ovens and bloody feet and…
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The third always speaks the unspeakable words.
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My sisters and I were fortunate to travel through Asia and Europe at very young ages. We confronted extraordinary beauty in Athens…
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Suicide is unspeakable, and to speak it is somehow to bring it into a human, imaginable sphere, even if only in the…
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To put it simply, no Darwin, no Hitler. Hitler tried to speed up evolution, to help it along, and millions suffered and…
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Faith is a grand cathedral, with divinely pictured windows - standing without, you can see no glory, nor can imagine any, but…
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
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This is of monumental significance. The gift has been given - what we make of it is up to us. Unless we…
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All the talk about the so-called unspeakable horror of early capitalism can be refuted by a single statistic: precisely in these years…
— Ludwig von Mises
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If the Church ever succeeds in doing that big thing, that great thing, that unspeakable thing that God purposes that we should…
— John G. Lake
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I have no dog, but it must be Somewhere there's one belongs to me-- A little chap with wagging tail, And dark…
— John Kendrick Bangs
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Not often in the story of mankind does a man arrive on earth who is both steel and velvet, who is as…
— Carl Sandburg
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It is misery, you know, unspeakable misery for the man who lives alone and who detests sordid, casual affairs; not old enough…
— Luigi Pirandello
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