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In journalism, as in politics, other people's lives are a currency to be bartered on behalf of notoriety and influence.
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Often a performance can be judged not by a movie's strongest moment but by its weakest, especially when it's the picture's crucial scene.
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Slavery was the betrayal of the American Promise at the moment that promise was made.
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In the culture at large, the war over science fiction's creative validity has been long since won, but guardians at the gates of literature, movies, and TV linger unconvinced, even as other genres fitfully transcend critical perceptions of insubstantiality.
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Condemning art as manipulative is a non sequitur, of course. All art is manipulative.
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When people start yammering about artistic responsibility, artists become wary. The subtext of such talk is that the arts need to be regulated, which is to say censored.
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I'm not sure there's a difference between books that affected the way I see the world and books that influenced me as a writer.
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Dream is only a memory of the future.