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1205 Critic Quotes

Heroes need monsters to establish their heroic credentials. You need something scary to overcome.

Credentials Establish Heroes Heroic
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Optimism means better than reality; pessimism means worse than reality. I'm a realist.

Better Means Optimism Pessimism
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We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly.
Anomaly Born Leader Man
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In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.

Day Dirt End End Of The Day
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Their mothers had finally caught up to them and been proven right. There were consequences after all but they were the consequences to things you didn't even know you'd done.

After Been Caught Consequences
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I hope that people will finally come to realize that there is only one 'race' - the human race - and that we are all members of it.

Come Finally Hope Human
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A word after a word after a word is power.
After Power Word
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Because I am a mother, I am capable of being shocked: as I never was when I was not one.

Am Because Being Capable
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If the national mental illness of the United States is megalomania, that of Canada is paranoid schizophrenia.

Canada Illness Mental Mental Illness
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A divorce is like an amputation: you survive it, but there's less of you.

Divorce Less Like Survive
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An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.

Blindness Eye Eye For An Eye
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If I were going to convert to any religion I would probably choose Catholicism because it at least has female saints and the Virgin Mary.

Any Because Catholicism Choose
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Never pray for justice, because you might get some.

Because Get Justice Might
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Popular art is the dream of society; it does not examine itself.

Art Does Dream Examine Itself
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I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their own.

Because Consider Forgotten Freedom Joy
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A ratio of failures is built into the process of writing. The wastebasket has evolved for a reason.

Built Evolved Failures Process
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You need a certain amount of nerve to be a writer.

Amount Certain Need Nerve
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This above all, to refuse to be a victim.

Above Refuse Victim
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For years I wanted to be older, and now I am.

Am I Am Now Older
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War is what happens when language fails.

Fails Happens Language War
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Gardening is not a rational act.
Act Gardening Rational
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Canada was built on dead beavers.

Beaver Built Canada Dead
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The answers you get from literature depend on the questions you pose.

Answers Depend Get Literature
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We thought we were running away from the grownups, and now we are the grownups.

Away Grownups Now Running
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The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love.

Because Had Important Love
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Myths can't be translated as they did in their ancient soil. We can only find our own meaning in our own time.

Ancient Did Find Meaning
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The story as told in The Odyssey doesn't hold water. There are too many inconsistencies.
Hold Many Odyssey Story
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A voice is a human gift; it should be cherished and used, to utter fully human speech as possible. Powerlessness and silence go together.

Cherished Fully Gift Go
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All fat women look the same; they all look 42.

Fat Look Same Women
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Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized.

Adult Another Cute Girl
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Time is compressed like the fist I close on my knee... I hold inside it the clues and solutions and the power for what I must do now.

Close Clues Fist Hold
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If I waited for perfection... I would never write a word.

Never Perfection Waited Word
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I'm not interested in cutting the feet off my characters or stretching them to make them fit my certain political view.

Certain Characters Cutting Feet
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If you work hard enough at something, it begins to make itself part of you, even though you do not really like it and know that part isn't real.

Real Part Know Like
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The wind languished. The floral curtain ceased flapping. The moonlight streamed through, lighting up her face. It was a young, animated face. At that moment, it touched a string, a peg, deep inside him.

Deep String Touched Moment
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Justice was like coloured balls in a magician's hand, changing colour and shape all the time beneath the light of politics.

Light Beneath Time Shape
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My life began with you, and my future goes on with you-there’s nothing else.

Else Nothing Future Life
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Heaven or hell is in one’s mind, not in the material things one has in the world.

World One Things Material
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Life is like the footprint left by a solitary crane in the snow, visible for one moment, and then gone.

Gone Moment One Visible
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History is like a mirror, capable of showing what a man really is.
Mirror Capable Man Really
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A desperately sick man will seek help from any doctor.

Doctor Help Sick Man
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After all, a man is only what he has decided to do, or not to do.

Man Decided Only After
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As long as you keep getting born, it's alright to die some times.

Alright Born Die Getting
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Unemployment is capitalism's way of getting you to plant a garden.

Capitalism Garden Getting Plant
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Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space.

Holding Least Metaphors Most
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It's the middle class that feels the luxury of being able to have causes.

Able Being Causes Class
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Laws against homosexual behavior should remain on the books.

Against Behavior Books Homosexual
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The lies we live will always be confessed in the stories that we tell.
Always Lies Live Stories
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The priests say that God created our souls, and that just puts us under the control of another puppeteer. If God created our will, then he's responsible for every choice we make.

Another Choice Control Created
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I don't believe that there are aliens. I believe there are really different people.

Alien Believe Different DifferentPeople
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