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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Strategy is the most important department of the art of war, and strategical skill is the highest and rarest function of military genius.
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I believe that my art gets across the point that I'm in this morality theater trying to help the underdog, and I'm speaking socially here, showing concern and making psychological and philosophical statements for the underdog.
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I'm not interested in perfection. The universe is perfect, and there are some works of art that we see as perfect, but human beings aren't perfect.
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Nature is based on harmony. So it says if we want to survive and become more like nature, then we actually have to understand that it's cooperation versus competition.
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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.
