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What I really dream of is that somebody would blow everything I've done out of the water in a beautiful way, which would clear the way for something better to come along.
- Leslie Fiedler
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Gertrude Stein really thought of Hemingway as frail. He almost married Stein.
- Leslie Fiedler
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It's funny to be a critic.
- Leslie Fiedler
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Foucault was the one person I met in France that I could talk to. He was a mensch. You know whether you agree with him or not because you know what he is saying.
- Leslie Fiedler
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Faulkner sat in our living room and read from Light in August. That was incredible.
- Leslie Fiedler
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I think Henry Miller has had huge influence not because he wrote about sex, but because the memoir or the nonfiction novel has become such a monumental force in American publishing, if not in literature.
- Leslie Fiedler
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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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Hemingway seems to be in a funny position. People nowadays can't identify with him closely as a member of their own generation, and he isn't yet historical.
- Leslie Fiedler
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There are things in American culture that want to wipe the class distinction. Blue jeans. Ready-made clothes. Coca-Cola.
- Leslie Fiedler
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#Jeans
I never met anybody in my life who says, I want to be a critic. People want to be a fireman, poet, novelist.
- Leslie Fiedler
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I've had a tough time with Pynchon. I liked him very much when I first read him. I liked him less with each book. He got denser and more complex in a way that didn't really pay off.
- Leslie Fiedler
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Critics? How do they happen? I know how it happened to me. I would send a poem or story to a magazine and they would say this doesn't suit our needs precisely but on the other hand you sound interesting. Would you be interested in doing a review?
- Leslie Fiedler
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Saul Bellow never took my advice when he was my friend.
- Leslie Fiedler
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I've been writing about James Fenimore Cooper. He was not a writer. Here was a man who was 30 years old and had never put anything more than his signature on paper.
- Leslie Fiedler
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I liked Camille Paglia. I liked her even better when I heard her talk.
- Leslie Fiedler
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I long for the raised voice, the howl of rage or love.
- Leslie Fiedler
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My assignment is what every writer's assignment is: tell the truth of his own time.
- Leslie Fiedler
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I love it now that a large minority of people who are handicapped prefer to call themselves crippled. This is all part of the game, like queer theory.
- Leslie Fiedler
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#People
#Theory
All good criticism should be judged the way art is. You shouldn't read it the way you read history or science.
- Leslie Fiedler
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I have, I admit, a low tolerance for detached chronicling and cool analysis.
- Leslie Fiedler
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