"A single week of Oprah takes you from……" — Lee Siegel
"A single week of Oprah takes you from bondage to all the violent terrors of life, to escape through vicarious encounters with celebrity, to visions of charity and hope, to hard resolve, to redemption and moral renovation."
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11 Quotes by Lee Siegel
Lee Siegel has 11 quotes on this site.
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I react very badly when mediocrity throws a tantrum of entitlement.
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Every man is a hero to his alias.
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Anonymity is a universal convention of the blogosphere, and the wicked expedience is that you can speak without consequences.
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Everyone seems to be fleeing from the responsibilities that come from being who you are. I think that is why…
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I am too childlike to be immature.
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I have a confession to make. For years, I earned a living - or a sort of living - writing…
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The Web critic relies on his or her readers for attentiveness and approval.
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Instead of books, art, theatre, and music being consigned to specialized niches, we might have a criticism that better reflects…
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Television has to reflect back to you your own sense of security. It also has to mirror your sense of…
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The terrorist threat is so cloudy, faceless, and vague, so manipulable by political purposes, so definitely present but indefinitely manifested,…
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Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally…
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No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our…
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The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all…
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The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes…
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Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of…
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We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and…
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I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is…
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We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace.
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The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela,…
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As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we…
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Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
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A friend to all is a friend to none.
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