"My assignment is what every writer's assignment is: tell the truth of his own time."
-Leslie Fiedler
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"Faulkner turned out to be a great teacher. When a student asked a question ineptly, he answered the question with what the student had really wanted to know.“
-Leslie Fiedler
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"All good criticism should be judged the way art is. You shouldn't read it the way you read history or science."
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"I long for the raised voice, the howl of rage or love."
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"All good criticism should be judged the way art is. You shouldn't read it the way you read history or science."
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"It's funny to be a critic."
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"I think the pattern of my essays is, A funny thing happened to me on my way through Finnegans Wake."
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