Frank Lentricchia Quotes

#1. In the end, everything is found to be wanting.

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#2. No one can be the total cure for another person.

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#3. People are mysterious, even to themselves.

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#4. That out of the quarrel with others we produce rhetoric, matter for the editorial page, while out of the quarrel with ourselves we create art.

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#5. Our personal past is only available to us now through black-and-white film, it's a medium for communication with the dead, including our dead selves, the way we used to be, which is why we're drawn to it.

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#6. Take the road to contradiction, it'll lead you, I promise, to the palace of wisdom.

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#7. I want to die, stripped, by myself, of all fantasies. That's the goal. I want to feel what is real, at the end, and only what is real. Grip fiercely with my eyes all that is around me
the people of my intimate life, the objects in the room, without the evasions of fantasies.

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#8. Only the past is real.

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