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Smith, Logan Pearsall. "Art and Letters." Afterthoughts. Constable & Company, 1931.

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A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car.

Kenneth Tynan

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Tynan, Kenneth. Quoted in "Critic Kenneth Tynan Has Mellowed But Is Still England's Stingingest Gadfly." Written by Godfrey Smith. The New York Times, 9 Jan. 1966.

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I live in a rather special world. I know only one person who voted for Nixon. Where they are I don't know. They're outside my ken. But sometimes when I'm in a theater I can feel them.

Pauline Kael

Remark in an address to the Modern Language Association after Richard Nixon's landslide election win in 1972.

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Kael, Pauline. Quoted in "Critics Here Focus on Films As Language Conference Opens." Written by Israel Shenker. The New York Times, 28 Dec. 1972. Originally stated in a lecture at the Modern Language Association, Dec. 1972.

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The happy ending is our national belief.

Mary McCarthy

America the Beautiful

On Americans.

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McCarthy, Mary. "America the Beautiful: The Humanist in the Bathtub." Commentary Magazine, Sept. 1947.

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Patriotism, as I see it, is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles.

George Jean Nathan

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Nathan, George Jean. Testament of a Critic. A. A. Knopf, 1931, bk. 1.

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Kael, Pauline. Quoted in "Pauline Kael Is Still At The Movies." Written by Jacob Siskind. The Montreal Gazette, 29 May 1968.

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Smith, Logan Pearsall. "Myself." Afterthoughts. Constable & Company, 1931.

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Smith, Logan Pearsall. Last Words. Constable & Company, 1933.

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Smith, Logan Pearsall. "Myself." Afterthoughts. Constable & Company, 1931.

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Smith, Logan Pearsall. "Life and Human Nature." Afterthoughts. Constable & Company, 1931.