Quote by Leslie Fiedler
All good criticism should be judged the way art is. You shouldnt r

All good criticism should be judged the way art is. You shouldnt read it the way you read history or science. – Leslie Fiedler

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When I was 12 years old, someone took me to see Martha Graham. It was nothing like what I thought of as serious dancing and even then I knew I was having a great experience. It was as if somebody was moving through space like no one ever did before. – Leslie Fiedler

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Experience
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Faulkner turned out to be a great teacher. When a student asked a question ineptly, he answered the question with what the student had really wanted to know. – Leslie Fiedler

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teacher
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I do not want art for a few any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few. – William Morris

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Art

I often find myself privately stewing about much British art, thinking that except for their tremendous gardens, that the English are not primarily visual artists, and are, in nearly unsurpassable ways, literary. – Jerry Saltz

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Art

What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when all the skill of art is not able to make an oyster! – Anatole France

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Art

If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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It is not our exalted feelings, it is our sentiments that build the necessary home. – Elizabeth Bowen

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Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Natures delight. – Marcus Aurelius

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I have never forgotten my days as an Eagle Scout. I didnt know it at the time, but what really came out of my Scouting was learning how to lead and serve the community. It has come in handy in my career in government. – Lloyd Bentsen

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To the extent that the judicial profession becomes the daily routine of deciding cases on the most secure precedents and the narrowest grounds available, the judicial mind atrophies and its perspective shrinks. – Irving R. Kaufman

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History