Pauline Kael - I Lost It at the Movies (1965)

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A mistake in judgment isn't fatal, but too much anxiety about judgment is.

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The first prerogative of an artist in any medium is to make a fool of himself.

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The pimp who peddles good clean stuff is nevertheless engaged in prostitution.

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In a foreign country people don't expect you to be just like them, but in Los Angeles, which is infiltrating the world, they don't consider that you might be different because they don't recognize any values except their own. And soon there may not be any others.

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Regrettably, one of the surest signs of the Philistine is his reverence for the superior tastes of those who put him down.

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It is a depressing fact that Americans tend to confuse morality and art (to the detriment of both) and that, among the educated, morality tends to mean social consciousness.

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All our advertising is propaganda, of course, but it has become so much a part of our life, is so pervasive, that we just don't know what it is propaganda for.

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I believe that we respond most and best to work in any art form (and to other experience as well) if we are pluralistic, flexible, relative in our judgments, if we are eclectic.

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Reality, like God and History, tends to direct people to wherever they want to go.

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You don't have to lay an egg to know if it tastes good.

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Really, it's not people who don't understand us who drive us nuts—it's when those who shouldn't, do.

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There is, in any art, a tendency to turn one's own preferences into a monomaniac theory.

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Sex is the great leveler, taste the great divider.

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Infallible taste is inconceivable; what could it be measured against?

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