"Hemingway seems to be in a funny position.……" — Leslie Fiedler
"Hemingway seems to be in a funny position. People nowadays can't identify with him closely as a member of their own generation, and he isn't yet historical."
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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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DeLillo never seems committed to me to what he is writing. Very nice surfaces, but he's got nothing underneath.
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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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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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The problem with winter sports is that - follow me closely here - they generally take place in winter.
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Karma brings us ever back to rebirth, binds us to the wheel of births and deaths. Good Karma drags us…
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The Confederates had suspected Wild Bill of being a spy for two or three days, and had watched him closely.
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Sensitiveness is closely allied to egotism; and excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness. The cure for tender…
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I'm also working closely with a group called the Amazon Conservation Team, helping with the rainforest in South America.
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In business or in life, don't follow the wagon tracks too closely.
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The food that enters the mind must be watched as closely as the food that enters the body.
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Look at every path closely and deliberately, then ask ourselves this crucial question: Does this path have a heart? If…
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In everything, satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures.
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Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.
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