"Meanwhile, however, whatâ€™s most bothersome about Pulp Fiction is its success. This is not to be mean-spirited about Tarantino himself; may he harvest all the available millions. But the way that this picture has been so widely ravened up and drooled over verges on the disgusting. Pulp Fiction nourishes, abets, cultural slumming."

-- Stanley Kauffmann

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“I believe in freedom for women to have equal rights - the right to work, the right to hold high positions, the right to take custody of their children after divorcing.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“We must not only obtain Wisdom: we must enjoy her.”
“In a broad systems sense, an organism's environment is indistinguishable from the organism itself.”
“If one isn't parsimonious before Christmas one can't be munificent when it arrives.”
“We are each a microcosm; if each of our individual worlds is in balance, the whole planet is in balance.”
“There is something dark and wintry about the atmosphere of the later Middle Ages.”

Source : Lytton Strachey (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Lytton Strachey (Illustrated)”, p.30, Delphi Classics
“When we got to the hotel, the Hawaiian Village, there were 500 screaming women there. The police were trying to keep the crowd back. It was very dangerous.”
“Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand.”

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