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“Well, art is art, isn't it? Still, on the other hand, water is water! And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now, uh... now you tell me what you know.”
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“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).”
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“As for literary criticism in general: I have long felt that any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel or a play or a poem is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae or a banana split.”
― Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage
― Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage
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