American - Critic | December 5, 1957 -
I am too childlike to be immature.
Lee Siegel
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I react very badly when mediocrity throws a tantrum of entitlement.
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Anonymity is a universal convention of the blogosphere, and the wicked expedience is that you can speak without consequences.
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I love the Internet; I'm on it all the time.
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I love the idea of the amateur - that's what popular culture is all about. But what the Internet's doing is professionalizing everyone's amateuristic impulses.
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Ever since the romantic comedy-drama 'She's Gotta Have It' antagonized black women and black men in 1986, Spike Lee's films have enjoyed the outrage of various groups.
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Every man is a hero to his alias.
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Everyone seems to be fleeing from the responsibilities that come from being who you are. I think that is why the blogosphere is thriving. It allows people to develop a fantasy self.
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I have a confession to make. For years, I earned a living - or a sort of living - writing negative book reviews.
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The Web critic relies on his or her readers for attentiveness and approval.
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Instead of books, art, theatre, and music being consigned to specialized niches, we might have a criticism that better reflects the eclecticism of our time, a criticism that takes in various arts all at once.
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In urban America, you do not so much meet a romantic partner as inherit the product of someone else's romantic crimes.
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