"Gertrude Stein really thought of Hemingway as frail.……" — Leslie Fiedler
"Gertrude Stein really thought of Hemingway as frail. He almost married Stein."
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50 Quotes by Leslie Fiedler
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- Cooper wrote a novel which is absolutely indistinguishable from Austen, completely from a female point of view, completely English, no…
- DeLillo never seems committed to me to what he is writing. Very nice surfaces, but he's got nothing underneath.
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- Critics? How do they happen? I know how it happened to me. I would send a poem or story to…
- Foucault was the one person I met in France that I could talk to. He was a mensch. You know…
- Hemingway seems to be in a funny position. People nowadays can't identify with him closely as a member of their…
- I admire Ginsberg as a poet, despite the fact that he seems not to know when he is being good…
- I have, I admit, a low tolerance for detached chronicling and cool analysis.
- To be an American (unlike being English or French or whatever) is precisely to imagine a destiny rather than to…
- I never met anybody in my life who says, I want to be a critic. People want to be a…
- There is a place in men's lives where pictures do in fact bleed, ghosts gibber and shriek, maidens run forever…