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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Calomniez, calomniez; il en reste toujours quelque chose.
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Don't rule out working with your hands. It does not preclude using your head.
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You have to struggle to stay alive and be of use as long as you can.
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Otherwise, all I remember of the denizens of the Nocturama is that several of them had strikingly large eyes, and the fixed inquiring gaze found in certain painters and philosophers who seek to penetrate the darkness which surrounds us purely by means of looking and thinking.
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Being in the middle of nature and the woods is my favorite thing
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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.
