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Realism, whether it be socialist or not, falls short of reality. It shrinks it, attenuates it, falsifies it; it does not take into ...
There is nothing truer than myth: history, in its attempt to "realize" myth, distorts it, stops halfway; when history claims to ha ...
Like all revolutions, the surrealist revolution was a reversion, a restitution, an expression of vital and indispensable spiritual ...
Donne, for not keeping of accent, deserved hanging ... Shakespeare wanted art ... Sharpham, Day, Dekker, were all rogues.
If I had any doubts at all about the justice of my dislike for Shakespeare, that doubt vanished completely. What a crude, immoral, ...
F.R. Leavis's "eat up your broccoli" approach to fiction emphasises this junkfood/wholefood dichotomy. If reading a novel--for the ...
Putting people in a room and strapping wires to their wrist to find out if I make them tingle when I'm telling them about Beirut i ...
Alicia Huberman: Look, I'll make it easy for you. The time has come when you must tell me that you have a wife and two adorable ch ...
Captain Prescott: I don't like this. I don't like her coming here.
Mr. Beardsley: She's had me worried for some time, a woman
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