"The critical method which denies literary modernity would appear -- and even, in certain respects, would be -- the most modern of critical movements."

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Source : Paul de Man (2013). “Blindness and Insight: Essays in the Rhetoric of Contemporary Criticism”, p.164, Routledge

Paul de Man

#Criticism Quotes #Would Be Quotes #Movement Quotes

“Yeah, well I've always played comedy. My background is musical comedy theatre and that's really where my training is. As an actor, that's my training.”
“If you're a Christian you don't sit there and worry about what somebody else is doing, if they're happy and they're committed in a relationship.”
“It's like the Wild West, the Internet. There are no rules.”
“And then the really awful thing is that at the end of the day after crying and experiencing things, then you look at what you've written and you're like, 'Hmm, there's half a page that's good here.' Then you throw out everything else.”

Source : "The Exploding Girl Blows Up". Interview with Meryl Cates, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 20, 2011.
“The command to judge not is not a requirement to be blind, but rather a plea to be generous. Jesus does not tell us to cease to be men... but to renounce the presumptuous ambition to be God.”
“If I was gay, I would think hip-hop hates me. Have you read the YouTube comments lately? â€˜Man, thatâ€™s gayâ€™ gets dropped on the daily,”
“I don't want to rely on something that could be taken away at some point.”
“A song has a life of its own. It's an autonomous thing, separate from your own experience, almost. And the mere repetition of it means it's subject to change; it means approaching it differently, expressing different emotional aspects of it. It doesn't feel like wallowing.”

Source : "St Vincent: 'I needed to know where the exits were'". Interview with Charlotte Richardson Andrews, www.theguardian.com. October 27, 2011.

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