"The critical task is necessarily comparative, and younger people do not truly know what is new"

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Source : Pauline Kael (1994). “For keeps”, E P Dutton

Pauline Kael

#People Quotes #Tasks Quotes #Critical Quotes

“I donâ€™t think there's ever been a point in my career where I've said, 'I've made it.' What does that mean, 'I've made it?' Made it to what? If you say, 'I've made it.' then are you finished? I don't want to be finished. I don't want to quit.”
“The wind of revolutions is not tractable.”
“I do not fight battles that cannot be won. Do not confuse that with cowardice.”
“The great French Impressionist painter Renoir, right at the end of his very long life, said to a friend, "I am just now learning to paint." Renoir carried his gift with a humility which realized how much he still had to learn. Anyone who goes deeply into a field in life and realizes this, gains a sense of proportion that can only make you humble.”

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“Barack and I were both raised by families who didn't have much in the way of money or material possessions but who had given us something far more valuable - their unconditional love, their unflinching sacrifice, and the chance to go places they had never imagined for themselves.”
“You can dwell on things, and if you open your eyes and pay attention to it, those things start popping up around you.”

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“Away with your president! We shall have a king... the army will salute him as monarch; your militia will leave you and assist in making him king and fight against you. And what have you to oppose this force? What will then become of you and your rights?”
“There are more honest people and more good people than there are thieves and bad people. It's just always been that way.”

Source : Interview with Ken Plume, asitecalledfred.com. 2003.

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