John Simon Quotes

#1. Diana Rigg is built like a brick mausoleum with insufficient flying buttresses.

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#2. Chess is a cold bath for the mind

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#3. Retailing is a unique destination. What you need is stronger critical mass.

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#4. Michael Taylor is not being executed for homicide. Michael Taylor is being executed for raping a white female.

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#5. Robert Creely's poems have two main characteristics. 1) They are short; 2) they are not short enough.

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#6. This case is just as racist as the fictional, but unfortunately all too typical case, in 'To Kill a Mockingbird'.

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#7. The pressure on language to deteriorate does not come merely from below, from the "democratic" lev-elers. It comes also from above, from the fancy jar-gonmongers, idle game players, fashionable coteries for second-rate intellectuals.

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#8. People are looking around. They are looking to do something with their time and money. The question is, what?

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#9. It's wonderful to be hated by idiots.

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#10. Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is ignorant.

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#11. The ultimate evil is the weakness, cowardice, that is one of the constituents of so much human nature. When, rarely, unalloyed nobility does occur, its chances of prevailing are slim. Yet it exists, and its mere existence is reason enough for not wiping the name of mankind off the slate.

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#12. It's hard to lose when your standards are so low.

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#13. Activating oxygen can produce compounds called radicals that put oxidative stress on cells. Such stress could ultimately lead to cancer and other diseases.

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#14. We like to be the largest outside investor, and the first outside investor.

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#15. Like springs, adaptations can only go downhill.

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#16. Dinner theater is anti-culture.

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#17. If you love language, it will love you back.

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