"My assignment is what every writer's assignment is: tell the truth of his own time."
-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."
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"All good criticism should be judged the way art is. You shouldn't read it the way you read history or science."
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"I long for the raised voice, the howl of rage or love."
-Leslie Fiedler
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"All good criticism should be judged the way art is. You shouldn't read it the way you read history or science."
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"I think the pattern of my essays is, A funny thing happened to me on my way through Finnegans Wake."
-Leslie Fiedler
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"But I think funny and talent will always win out I mean, of course there are hurdles, but I think if you're funny you will get over all of that."
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"It is funny because the guy who is my boss now, Howard Stern, has a similarity there. He got big being a regular guy. He wasn't the greatest looking guy in the world."
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"I have a funny family, but none of them are remotely in show business."
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"When we criticize in Iran the actions of the government, the fundamentalists say that we and the Bush Administration are in the same camp. The funny thing is that human rights activists and Mr. Bush can never be situated in the same group."
-Shirin Ebadi
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"So it was just funny to read a script that was just similar to what had been going on in my life."
-Piper Perabo
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