"Here is a fundamental conflict in educated society:……" — Russell Smith
"Here is a fundamental conflict in educated society: We are not supposed to value beauty so highly, and yet who can defend against its sheer power to move, its rhetorical force?"
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39 Quotes by Russell Smith
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Calls for the simplification of abstract or allusive art have always come from governments suspicious of artists themselves. This is…
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I would rather be nuts than unattractive.
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There is something insouciant and boyish about the sockless ankle in summer.
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What makes a publisher decide to market a book to a particular audience is not the subject matter but the…
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The only thing that makes a book YA is that it is about teenagers, and it is written in a…
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The YA category is an entirely new one, and seems to have more to do with readability than with age…
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Increasingly, to dismiss any popular artistic style is seen as the worst kind of snobbery. And snobbery, it goes without…
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Indeed, the whole point of the man bun, I have surmised, is to assert a high proficiency at yoga. There…
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I have argued about the future of fiction with jaded novelists, far-seeing postmodernists, technologists, television critics. The argument that future…
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Fashion has always been in conflict with convention. Style involves some knowledge of both. But you can pretty much forget…
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My son craves picture books about Transformers and Ninja Turtles and the Hulk; they show one fantastic creature smashing or…
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I am so sick of being exhorted, as a writer, to improve the world by representing it in a more…
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