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Poetry is the way into a spiritual vision of society and the universe.

Camille Paglia

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Camille Paglia
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: April 2
Art Historian
Essayist
Film Critic
Journalist
Literary Critic
Professor
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Endicott
New York
Camille Anna Paglia
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Foucault is the Cagliostro of our time.
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Male urination really is a kind of accomplishment, an arc of transcendance. A woman merely waters the ground she stands on.
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Our major universities are now stuck with an army of pedestrian, toadying careerists, Fifties types who wave around Sixties banners to conceal their record of ruthless, beaver-like tunneling to the top.
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Art is something out of the ordinary commenting on the ordinary.
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Modernization means Westernization.
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Science is a method of logical analysis of nature's operations. It has lessened human anxiety about the cosmos by demonstrating the materiality of nature's forces, and their frequent predictability.
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My generation of the Sixties, with all our great ideals, destroyed liberalism, because of our excesses.
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American high schools have physically imprisoned young people, stripped them of civil liberties and fed them a diet of p.c. pap.
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For me, the Profumo affair symbolizes the evanescence of male government compared to women's cosmic power.
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Minerva save us from the cloying syrup of coercive compassion!
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The male orientation of classical Athens was inseparable from its genius. Athens became great not despite but because of its misogyny.
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Straight men who visit prostitutes are valiantly striving to keep sex free from emotion, duty, family--in other words, from society, religion, and procreative Mother Nature.
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Anti-religious sneers are a hallmark of perpetual adolescents.
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Nothing is more hackneyed than the liberal dogma that shock value confers automatic importance on an artwork.
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Every revolution eventually needs a new revolution.
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Pornography is human imagination in tense theatrical action its violations are a protest against the violations of our freedom by nature.
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I do not believe in God, but I believe God is man’s greatest idea. Those incapable of religious feeling or those (like hard-core gay activists) who profane sacred ground do not have the imagination to educate the young. … Until the left comes to its senses about the cultural power of religion, the right will continue to broaden its appeal.
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The moral ambivalence of the great mother goddesses has been conveniently forgotten by those American feminists who have resurrected them. We cannot grasp nature's bare blade without shedding our own blood.
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Every reading is partial, but that does not absolve us from the quest for meaning, which defines us as a species.
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