Frederick Crews quotes
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“Ephemerality is the little magazine's generic fate; by promptly dying it gives proof that it remained loyal to its first program.”
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“"Little magazines" are, for the most part, the mayflies of the literary world.”
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“Psychoanalysis will fade away just as mesmerism and phrenology did, and for the same reason - its exploded pretensions will deprive it of recruits”
-- Frederick CrewsSource : Frederick C. Crews, Frederick Crews (1988). “Skeptical Engagements”, Oxford University Press, USA
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“The recovery movementis not primarily addressed to people who always knew about their sexual victimization. Its main intendedaudience is women who aren't at all sure that they were molested, and its purpose is to convince them of that face and embolden them to act upon it. As for genuine victims, the comfort they are proffered may look attractive at first, but it is of debatable long value.”
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“I love it when the Bible gives Emily Post-like tips that are both wise and easy to follow.”
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Source : "The Trouble Makers: Dissent over Foreign Policy, 1792-1939". Book by A. J. P. Taylor, "The Radical Tradition: Fox, Paine, and Cobbett", p. 14, 1957.
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“I love music videos, I really do. I think it's kind of sad that it's a dying art form.”
Source : "From ‘Misery’ to Twilight : Conversations With Maroon 5’s Adam Levine and Fanfarlo’s Simon Balthazar". Interview With Mike Ragogna, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 23, 2010.
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