Stanley Kauffmann quotes

Stanley Kauffmann quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“What is a memory? Not a storehouse, not a trunk in the attic, but an instrument that constantly refines the past into a narrative, accessible and acceptable to oneself.”
-- Stanley Kauffmann

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“The next great step of mankind is to step into the nature of his own mind.”
-- Stanley Kauffmann

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“Meanwhile, however, whatâ€™s most bothersome about Pulp Fiction is its success. This is not to be mean-spirited about Tarantino himself; may he harvest all the available millions. But the way that this picture has been so widely ravened up and drooled over verges on the disgusting. Pulp Fiction nourishes, abets, cultural slumming.”
-- Stanley Kauffmann

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“Meanwhile, however, what’s most bothersome about Pulp Fiction is its success. This is not to be mean-spirited about Tarantino himself; may he harvest all the available millions. But the way that this picture has been so widely ravened up and drooled over verges on the disgusting. Pulp Fiction nourishes, abets, cultural slumming.”
-- Stanley Kauffmann

Source : Stanley Kauffmann (2001). “Regarding Film: Criticism and Comment”, Performing Arts Journal Books

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