"DeLillo never seems committed to me to what……" — Leslie Fiedler
"DeLillo never seems committed to me to what he is writing. Very nice surfaces, but he's got nothing underneath."
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50 Quotes by Leslie Fiedler
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Anybody in the next centuries wanting to know what it was like to be a poet in the middle of…
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Cooper wrote a novel which is absolutely indistinguishable from Austen, completely from a female point of view, completely English, no…
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Faulkner turned out to be a great teacher. When a student asked a question ineptly, he answered the question with…
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Critics? How do they happen? I know how it happened to me. I would send a poem or story to…
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Gertrude Stein really thought of Hemingway as frail. He almost married Stein.
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Foucault was the one person I met in France that I could talk to. He was a mensch. You know…
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Hemingway seems to be in a funny position. People nowadays can't identify with him closely as a member of their…
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I admire Ginsberg as a poet, despite the fact that he seems not to know when he is being good…
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I have, I admit, a low tolerance for detached chronicling and cool analysis.
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To be an American (unlike being English or French or whatever) is precisely to imagine a destiny rather than to…
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I never met anybody in my life who says, I want to be a critic. People want to be a…
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There is a place in men's lives where pictures do in fact bleed, ghosts gibber and shriek, maidens run forever…
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I've committed to surfing the rest of my life.
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To act is to be committed, and to be committed is to be in danger.
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I'm just curious, who's more fit to raise a child? A loving committed same-sex couple or an unmarried 15-year-old with…
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Whatever failures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies I have witnessed in private and public life…
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Evil is committed without effort, naturally, fatally; goodness is always the product of some art.
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An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of…
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The Holocaust committed by the Nazis turned this country, where most of the European Jews used to live and where…
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The next few months are critical to Pakistan's future direction as a democratic state committed to promoting peace, fighting terrorism…
— Benazir Bhutto
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Folks, you're the reason that the automobile industry is back. Whether it was the wage freezes, the plant closures, folks,…
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Merely by describing yourself as black you have started on a road towards emancipation, you have committed yourself to fight…
— Steven Biko
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It is much easier to repent of sins that we have committed than to repent of those that we intend…
— Josh Billings
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People quit on jobs. They quit on marriages. They quit on school. There's an immediacy of this day and age…
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