“ It's so wrong when I pick up a new edition of Huckleberry Finn and I look at the last page and it doesn't say, Yours truly, at the end. ”
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“ I've had a tough time with Pynchon. I liked him very much when I first read him. I liked him less with each book. He got denser and more complex in a way that didn't really pay off. ”
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“ I like that people who are not experts can not only understand but get engaged by my work. I like that Joe Paterno can read me. Bill Bradley. ”
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“ One more recent novelist to come along is Cormac McCarthy. Him, I like. ”
- Leslie Fiedler- Copy
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“ Unless criticism refuses to take itself quite so seriously or at least to permit its readers not to, it will inevitably continue to reflect the finicky canons of the genteel tradition and the depressing pieties of the Culture Religion of Modernism. ”
- Leslie Fiedler- Copy
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“ Unless criticism refuses to take itself quite so seriously or at least to permit its readers not to, it will inevitably continue to reflect the finicky canons of the genteel tradition and the depressing pieties of the Culture Religion of Modernism. ”
- Leslie Fiedler- Copy
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“ There are things in American culture that want to wipe the class distinction. Blue jeans. Ready-made clothes. Coca-Cola. ”
- Leslie Fiedler- Copy
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“ The "text" is merely one of the contexts of a piece of literature, its lexical or verbal one, no more or less important than the sociological, psychological, historical, anthropological or generic. ”
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“ Gertrude Stein really thought of Hemingway as frail. He almost married Stein. ”
- Leslie Fiedler- Copy
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“ Unless criticism refuses to take itself quite so seriously or at least to permit its readers not to, it will inevitably continue to reflect the finicky canons of the genteel tradition and the depressing pieties of the Culture Religion of Modernism. ”
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“ To be an American is precisely to imagine a destiny rather than to inherit one; since we have always been, insofar as we are Americans at all, inhabitants of myth rather than history. ”
- Leslie Fiedler- Copy
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“ Of the female black authors, I really like Morrison's early books a lot. But she's really become so much a clone of Faulkner. He did it better. ”
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“ All good criticism should be judged the way art is. You shouldn't read it the way you read history or science. ”
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“ Anybody in the next centuries wanting to know what it was like to be a poet in the middle of the 20th century should read Kaddish. ”
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“ I liked Camille Paglia. I liked her even better when I heard her talk. ”
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“ I love it now that a large minority of people who are handicapped prefer to call themselves crippled. This is all part of the game, like queer theory. ”
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“ One more recent novelist to come along is Cormac McCarthy. Him, I like. ”
- Leslie Fiedler- Copy
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“ Of the female black authors, I really like Morrison's early books a lot. But she's really become so much a clone of Faulkner. He did it better. ”
- Leslie Fiedler- Copy
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“ Unless criticism refuses to take itself quite so seriously or at least to permit its readers not to, it will inevitably continue to reflect the finicky canons of the genteel tradition and the depressing pieties of the Culture Religion of Modernism. ”
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“ Raymond Carver is good. I think he'll be appreciated more and more. He's an easy writer to imitate. ”
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“ The black situation has changed. They finally realized they're Americans. ”
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“ DeLillo never seems committed to me to what he is writing. Very nice surfaces, but he's got nothing underneath. ”
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