Cinema Quote by Molly Haskell

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“There are two cinemas: the films we have actually seen and the memories we have of them.”

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“We are a rotating cast of aspects of self that are shown to one person, or in one setting, and hidden in another. Memorial…

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American eroticism has always been of a different provenance and complexion than the European variety, an enjoyment both furtive and bland that is closer…

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The thought that we are enduring the unendurable is one of the things that keeps us going.

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The mammary fixation is the most American of the sex fetishes.

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...(Charles) Reich discredits reason because it has been used to justify the war in Vietnam, which is like deciding that because your mother has…

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The mammary fixation is the most infantile and the most American, of the sex fetishes

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Movies both reflect and create social conditions, but their special charm is to offer fantasy clothes as virtual reality, a world where people consume…

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[On swingers:] They have gone from Puritanism into promiscuity without passing through sensuality.

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But one of the attributes of love, like art, is to bring harmony and order out of chaos, to introduce meaning and affect where…

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Being alone and liking it is, for a woman, an act of treachery, an infidelity far more threatening than adultery.

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As so often happens in marriage, roles that had begun almost playfully, to give line and shape to our lives, had hardened like suits…

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I would trade many an art-film classic for the final exchange between Redford and Streisand in front of the Plaza.

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