"Opening things up not closing them off is my job. I'm doing that for my reader. You know, Bob Gottlieb always says, "Criticism is a service industry." I take that very seriously. I do the research so I can tell you interesting things. It's not condescending, it's educational."

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Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

Daniel Mendelsohn

#Educational Quotes #Interesting Quotes #Criticism Quotes

“Life is meaningless only if we allow it to be. Each of us has the power to give life meaning, to make our time and our bodies and our words into instruments of love and hope.”
“there is no sin punished more implacably by nature than the sin of resistance to change.”
“To find the point where hypothesis and fact meet; the delicate equilibrium between dream and reality; the place where fantasy and earthly things are metamorphosed into a work of art; the hour when faith in the future becomes knowledge of the past; to lay down one's power for others in need; to shake off the old ordeal and get ready for the new; to question, knowing that never can the full answer be found; to accept uncertainties quietly, even our incomplete knowledge of God; this is what man's journey is about, I think.”
“Surprise is the mother of panic.”
“It takes me about a week and a half to really analyze a game - play by play.”

Source : "A Book Buyer's Lament" by Ken Kalfus, www.newyorker.com. June 25, 2015.
“I do read music, but I prefer playing from the heart.”
“As a child I perceived violence as a sort of natural law. In the totalitarian Soviet Union, oppression held everything together. It was the sinister energy of our country.”
“From the beginning of Queen there was such momentum that I never had any time to do anything else. My energy was 95% focused on the band”

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