Leslie Fiedler Quotes
The novel is always pop art, and the novel is always dying. That's the only way it stays alive. It does really die. I've been thinking about that a lot.
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Providence was well aware what lay ahead for me, and my Capuchin training was to prepare me for it.
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The measure of a man is not how great his faith is, but how great his love is. We must not let government programs disconnect our souls from each other.
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I have cravings all the time, even when I'm not pregnant.
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Effective satire has to be almost identical to the subject that it is skewering.
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In the past, the West had tried to export one formula of democracy which should fit to the rest of the world, and they discovered that this doesn't work.
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Thomas Pynchon looks exactly like Thomas Pynchon should look. He is tall, he wears lumberjack shirts and blue jeans. He has Albert Einstein white hair and Bugs Bunny front teeth.
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All I remember is the last time I played a videogame, it was Space Invaders.
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Happiness isn't getting what you want, it's wanting what you got.
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I don't necessarily think that installation is the only way to go. It's just a label for certain kinds of arrangements.
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I love Johnny Cash, and I respect Johnny Cash. He's the biggest. He's like an Elvis in this business, but no, he's never been the rebel.
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I love the Royal Family and every aspect of Britain and what we have achieved in history.
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Public appearances are a headache. I hold mine down to a minimum.
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Gossip is easy, politics is hard.
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I am happy in Paris.
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Math is one of my favorite subjects.
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Most of the sicknesses we suffer from are from the things we eat.
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Youth is really in your attitude, not in what you look like.
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Tourism is a top priority activity for federal government, which is why it invests an average of over 2,500 million dollars a year in infrastructure works and integral projects that promote Mexico's culture and natural attractions.
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I paint and I draw and I write and I do other things too, and recently some people at school were asking if I'd ever publish any of my work. But I almost feel like I would have to publish it under another name because there's a definition of me out there that feels kind of stuck in the moment when it was formed.
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As we get more technically driven, the importance of people becomes more than it's ever been before. You have to utilize who you are in your work. Nobody else can do that: nobody else can pull from your background, from your parents, your upbringing, your whole life experience.
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Criminal conduct by police officers, federal agents, and their confederates cannot be tolerated and will be met with the full force of the law.
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Art is not made to decorate rooms. It is an offensive weapon in the defense against the enemy.
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Nations do not die from invasion; they die from internal rottenness.
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The novel is always pop art, and the novel is always dying. That's the only way it stays alive. It does really die. I've been thinking about that a lot.
