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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From a spectator point of view, Test cricket is not important; people hardly watch Test cricket. But as a player, Tests are the real thing. You have to concentrate for five days. It's a lot of time, and not easy to do it day in and day out. If people have played 70-100 Tests, it's a lot of cricket, a lot of concentration and dedication.
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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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Character - in things great and small - is indicated when a man (or person) pursues with sustained follow-through what he feels himself capable of doing.
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On the third day in India, I realized people were not suffering as much as I thought.
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And that's what art is, a form in which people can reflect on who we are as human beings and come to some understanding of this journey we are on.
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Probably the most memorable even of my life is when I was born. It really made me who I am. If I die, I hope to go out the same way I came in, but I don't think my mother would be into that.
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The history of governmentally established religion, both in England and in this country, showed that whenever government had allied itself with one particular form of religion, the inevitable result had been that it had incurred the hatred, disrespect and even contempt of those who held contrary beliefs.
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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.
