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Criticism at its best is re-creative, not spirit-killing.
Camille Paglia
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Camille Paglia
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: April 2
Art Historian
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Film Critic
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Endicott
New York
Camille Anna Paglia
Criticism
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Is there intellectual life in America? At present, the answer is no.
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A serious problem in America is the gap between academe and the mass media, which is our culture. Professors of humanities, with all their leftist fantasies, have little direct knowledge of American life and no impact whatever on public policy.
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Academic Marxists, with their elitist sense of superiority to popular taste, are the biggest snobs in America.
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Feminism has exceeded its proper mission of seeking political equality for women and has ended by rejecting contingency, that is, human limitation by nature or fate.
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Running to Mommy and Daddy on the campus grievance committee is unworthy of strong women.
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They do not understand the fragility of civilization and the constant nearness of savage nature.
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Anyone who gets his or her political news primarily from the New York Times (which made the ethically challenged carpetbagger Hillary a senator) is a fool.
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Homeric mind is ingenuity, practical intelligence. There is no Rodin-like deep thinking, no mathematical or philosophical speculation. Odysseus thinks with his hands.
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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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The more woman aims for personal identity and autonomy ... the fiercer will be her struggle with nature - that is, with the intractable physical laws of her own body. And the more nature will punish her: 'Do not dare to be free! For your body does not belong to you.'
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Today, the ideal male is the gay man and the ideal female is the worker female, the woman who can work in a coal mine just like all the other men.
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Every man must define his identity against his mother. If he does not, he just falls back into her and is swallowed up.
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The artist makes art not to save mankind but to save himself. Every benevolent comment by an artist is a fog to cover his tracks, the bloody trail of his assault against reality and others.
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Your life is a Fellini film, lacking only Anita Ekberg with a cat on her head.
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When it defines man as the enemy, feminism is alienating women from their own bodies.
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I cannot be convinced that great artists are moralists. Art is first appearances, then meaning.
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Heterosexual love,. is in sync with cosmic forces. Not everyone has the stomach for daily war with nature.
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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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The unhappy truth is that male homosexuality will never be fully accepted by the heterosexual majority, who are obeying the dictates not of bigoted society or religion but of procreative nature.
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This was a good example of the fascist policing of public discourse in this country by nominal liberals who have become as unthinkingly wedded to dogma as any junior member of the Spanish Inquisition.
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