FastSaying
I collect all the reviews of the films I turned down. And when they're bad - I have to smile.
Simone Signoret
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[Leaves of Grass is] monstrous because it pretends to persuade the soul while it slights the intellect; because it pretends to gratify the feelings while it outrages the taste.
— Henry James
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[About John Updike's Rabbit Run] The author fails to convince us that his puppets are interesting in themselves, or that their plight has implications that transcend their narrow world.
— Chicago Tribune
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On a book by Henry James: "Once you put it down, you simply can't pick it up.
— Mark Twain
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So, you're the man who can't spell 'fuck.'"
Dorothy Parker to Norman Mailer after publishers had convinced Mailer to replace the word with a euphemism, 'fug,' in his 1948 book, "The Naked and the Dead.
— Dorothy Parker
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If a book isn’t at least somewhat polarizing, it didn’t say anything of value.
[Blog entry - November 1, 2014]
— Ilona Andrews
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