My assignment is what every writer's assignment is: tell the truth of his own time.
Leslie Fiedler
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Mom spent the time that she was supposed to be a kid actully raising children, her younger brother and younger sister. She was tough as nails and did not suffer fools at all. And the truth was she could not afford to. She spoke the truth, bluntly, directly, and without much varnish. I am her son. -
Every day I try to do breathing exercises, meditation, and yoga. These things sound awfully cliche, but they help me slow down and try to point to a truth. -
Justice is the truth in action. -
Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with the absolute truth. -
In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.
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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.
- I have, I admit, a low tolerance for detached chronicling and cool analysis.
- When I was 12 years old, someone took me to see Martha Graham. It was nothing like what I thought of as serious dancing and even then I knew I was having a great experience. It was as if somebody was moving through space like no one ever did before.
- 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.
- I think the pattern of my essays is, A funny thing happened to me on my way through Finnegans Wake.