"I long for the raised voice, the howl of rage or love."
-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.“
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"I have, I admit, a low tolerance for detached chronicling and cool analysis."
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"My assignment is what every writer's assignment is: tell the truth of his own time."
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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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"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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"Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils."
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"Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing."
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"What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books."
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