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I demand that my books be judged with utmost severity, by knowledg

I demand that my books be judged with utmost severity, by knowledgeable people who know the rules of grammar and of logic, and who will seek beneath the footsteps of my commas the lice of my thought in the head of my style. – Louis Aragon

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Can the knowledge deriving from reason even begin to compare with knowledge perceptible by sense? – Louis Aragon

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Knowledge
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Light is meaningful only in relation to darkness, and truth presupposes error. It is these mingled opposites which people our life, which make it pungent, intoxicating. We only exist in terms of this conflict, in the zone where black and white clash. – Louis Aragon

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Genuine polemics approach a book as lovingly as a cannibal spices a baby. – Walter Benjamin

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Culture is only true when implicitly critical, and the mind which forgets this revenges itself in the critics it breeds. Criticism is an indispensable element of culture. – Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno

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Post-modernism has cut off the present from all futures. The daily media add to this by cutting off the past. Which means that critical opinion is often orphaned in the present. – John Berger

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Never criticize a man until youve walked a mile in his moccasins. – American Indian Proverb

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Having family responsibilities and concerns just has to make you a more understanding person. – Sandra Day OConnor

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A film that I love is Raising Arizona and thats funny but its quite indie and weird and odd and quirky. Id love to do something like that. Who knows? – Stephen Moyer

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I see a trend here where the President seems to think his job is to count votes and then try to make a deal Thats what we in legislatures do. Mr. Obamas job is to travel the country, fight for the values that he cares about. – Anthony Weiner

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