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“The greatest honor that can be paid to the work of art, on its pedestal of ritual display, is to describe it with sensory completeness. We need a science of description. Criticism is ceremonial revivification.”
Camille Paglia
Art
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Criticism
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Description
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Culture
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Philosophy
2.
“I despise the phony, fancy-pants rhetoric of professors aping jargon-filled European locutions – which have blighted academic film criticism for over 30 years.”
Camille Paglia
Rhetoric
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Academia
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Criticism
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Film
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Culture
3.
“I am waiting impatiently for the day when beleaguered, like-minded academics can order James Wolcott’s collected essays for their classes.”
Camille Paglia
Academia
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Criticism
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Essays
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Literature
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Education
4.
“Criticism at its best is re-creative, not spirit-killing.”
Camille Paglia
Criticism
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Creativity
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Art
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Intellect
,
Perspective
5.
“Every year, feminists provide more and more evidence for the old charge that women can neither think nor write.”
Camille Paglia
Feminism
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Criticism
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Gender
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Writing
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Intellect
6.
“There is a constant rush to judgment in Foucault. He is filled with specious generalizations, false categories, distortions, fudging, pretenses to knowledge in areas where he was ignorant. He had no ability whatsoever to distinguish among historical sources, where he makes terrible blunders.”
Camille Paglia
Philosophy
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Foucault
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Criticism
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Knowledge
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History
7.
“Anti-religious sneers are a hallmark of perpetual adolescents.”
Camille Paglia
Religion
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Anti-religion
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Adolescents
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Criticism
,
Society
8.
“The followers of Derrida are pathetic, snuffling in French pockets for bits of pieces of a deconstructive method already massively and coherently presented and with a mature sense of the sacred in Buddhism and Hinduism.”
Camille Paglia
Derrida
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Philosophy
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Deconstruction
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Religion
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Criticism
9.
“Uncritical American boosterism - automatic endorsement of every government action - is myopic and self-defeating.”
Camille Paglia
Politics
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Society
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Government
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Criticism
,
Ideology
10.
“I regard affirmative action as pernicious - a system that had wonderful ideals when it started but was almost immediately abused for the benefit of white middle-class women.”
Camille Paglia
Affirmative Action
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Politics
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Society
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Equality
,
Criticism
11.
“As a longtime fan of talk radio, I'm very worried about the low opinion that conservative hosts and callers have of the American artist. Art is portrayed as a scam, a rip-off and snow job pushed by snobbish elites.”
Camille Paglia
Art
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Media
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Politics
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Society
,
Criticism
12.
“Overconcentration on any one point is distortion.”
Camille Paglia
Philosophy
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Criticism
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Focus
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Education
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Balance
13.
“A lesser complaint: hair extensions. There are moments on 'All My Children' when half the women actors, young and old, seem to be afflicted by android Barbie creep. All those thick swatches of lifeless strands clustering lankly round ladies' necks! Like orange tanning spray, this is a fashion fad that should be put out of its misery.”
Camille Paglia
Fashion
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Society
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Criticism
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Gender
,
Trends
14.
“The piddling ignoramuses who deny that there is a distinct, discernible, objective western tradition are just woozy literati.”
Camille Paglia
Philosophy
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Tradition
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Criticism
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Culture
,
Ideology
15.
“Lacan is a tyrant who must be driven from our shores. Narrowly trained English professors who know nothing of art history or popular culture think they can just wade in with Lacan and trash everything in sight.”
Camille Paglia
Lacan
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Criticism
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Philosophy
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Education
,
Art
16.
“Feminism has become a catch-all vegetable drawer where bunches of clingy sob sisters can store their moldy neuroses.”
Camille Paglia
Feminism
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Criticism
,
Society
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Gender Roles
,
Ideology
17.
“It's high time for the art world to admit that the avant-garde is dead. It was killed by my hero, Andy Warhol, who incorporated into his art all the gaudy commercial imagery of capitalism (like Campbell's soup cans) that most artists had stubbornly scorned.”
Camille Paglia
Art
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Avant-Garde
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Warhol
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Capitalism
,
Criticism
18.
“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.”
Camille Paglia
Education
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Universities
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Careerism
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Society
,
Criticism
19.
“You know that great prejudice exists against all successful business enterprise – the more successful, the greater the prejudice.”
John D. Rockefeller
Business
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Success
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Society
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Criticism
,
Wealth
20.
“Not many people agree with what I do.”
Guy Kawasaki
Individuality
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Mindset
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Confidence
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Perseverance
,
Criticism
21.
“Every day, I get five pieces of hate mail: Tweets or hate emails.”
Guy Kawasaki
Criticism
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Social Media
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Experience
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Resilience
,
Mindset
22.
“I conceive disgust at these impertinent and misbecoming familiarities inscribed upon your ordinary tombstone.”
Charles Lamb
Death
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Respect
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Memorial
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Tradition
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Criticism
23.
“Books which are no books.”
Charles Lamb
Literature
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Quality
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Criticism
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Reading
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Writing
24.
“Essays, entitled critical, are epistles addressed to the public, through which the mind of the recluse relieves itself of its impressions.”
Margaret Fuller
Writing
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Essays
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Criticism
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Expression
,
Thought
25.
“The use of criticism, in periodical writing, is to sift, not to stamp a work.”
Margaret Fuller
Criticism
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Writing
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Judgment
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Analysis
,
Thought
26.
“Your feedback should help people win. Else it is just criticism.”
Ankur Warikoo
Feedback
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Support
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Growth
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Criticism
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Purpose
27.
“The most pitiful response to any sort of criticism is anger.”
Ankur Warikoo
Criticism
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Anger
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Maturity
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Response
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Self-awareness
28.
“Ignore the critics. Not the criticism.”
Ankur Warikoo
Critics
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Criticism
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Growth
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Discernment
,
Feedback
29.
“Take criticism seriously. But not personally.”
Ankur Warikoo
Criticism
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Growth
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Detachment
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Self-improvement
,
Perspective
30.
“All that hullabaloo about somebody’s net worth is just stupid, and it’s made my life a lot more complex and difficult.”
Sam Walton
Wealth
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Complexity
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Simplicity
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Criticism
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Life
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