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If there's an intellectual highway, there's also an intellectual subway.

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What we need in America is a renaissance. We need to go forward by going backward.

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Popular culture tells you that schools and parents don't know what's going on, the police are dogs, politicians are all liars and scum, and any crime that's not committed by the Mafia is done by the CIA.

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Our job as writers and thinkers in the time is how to bring about the occasions that let people have that first-person experience - or the metaphoric experience that allows them to see human continuity as opposed to total threat, total willingness to do violence.

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When people conclude that all is futile, then the absurd becomes the norm.

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In America, we have to learn to be patient enough to figure out what somebody is saying. Somebody might actually be saying something.

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Our democratic richness arrives when we're able to comprehend our collective humanity accurately.

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The high point of civilization is that you can hate me and I can hate you but we develop an etiquette that allows us to deal with each other because if we acted solely upon our impulse we'd probably go to war.

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Now the writing in the head, I definitely do every day, thinking about how I want to phrase something or how I'd like to rephrase something I've already written.

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The discussion of ideas as opposed to the American narcissistic obsession with what's going on with the self, that's the general thing people are talking about.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Critic

Born: December 14th, 1945

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