Hemingway seems to be in a funny position. People nowadays can't identify with him closely as a member … - Leslie Fiedler

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Leslie Fiedler

Hemingway seems to be in a funny position. People nowadays can't identify with him closely as a member of their own generation, and he isn't yet historical.

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I long for the raised voice, the howl of rage or love.

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There are things in American culture that want to wipe the class distinction. Blue jeans. Ready-made clothes. Coca-Cola.

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To be an American (unlike being English or French or whatever) 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.

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Henry Miller wrote novels, but he calls his protagonist Henry, often Henry Miller, and his books are in this gray area between memoir and novel.

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The black situation has changed. They finally realized they're Americans.

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Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.

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As it turns out, social scientists have established only one fact about single women's mental health: employment improves it.

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When you live in a networked environment, it's possible to separate data from applications.

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When you make the film, it's like a chef who works on the meal. After you're working all day in the kitchen and dicing and cutting and putting the sauces on, you don't want to eat it. That's how I always feel about the films. I work on it for a year. I've written it, I've worked with the actors, I've edited, put the music in. I just never want to see it again.

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Joyce Carol Oates

Sometimes I stumble upon a wonderfully irresistible [to me] voice, unexpectedly.

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