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Jerry Saltz Quotes

In art, scandal is a false narrative, a smoke screen that camouflages rather than reveals. When we don't know what we're seeing, we overreact.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: critic
Nationality: american
Birth: February 19, 1951

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Art Seeing Smoke Know False Screen

I did my dissertation on Kafka.

Did Dissertation Kafka

Perhaps we underestimated the challenges in Afghanistan in the past. That's why we are now strengthening and intensifying our commitment.

Anders Fogh Rasmussen

Commitment Past Challenges Now Why

That is the returning to God which in reality is never concluded on earth but yet leaves behind in the soul a divine home sickness, which never again ceases.

Home God Soul Sickness Reality

And I remember going to the record studio and there was a park across the street and I'd see all the children playing and I would cry because it would make me sad that I would have to work instead.

Michael Jackson

Work Sad Children Me Remember Cry

Please watch a little less television. Maybe post a few less comments about the lunch you had today.

Today Lunch You Television Little

You have no idea how expensive it is to look this cheap.

You Look Cheap Expensive Idea How

I have two pairs of reading glasses. One pair is for reading fiction, the other for non-fiction. I've read the Bible twice wearing each pair, and it's the same.

Glasses Bible Reading Same Fiction

There's a reason that students don't grade their own papers. There's a reason defendants don't sentence themselves. And there's the reason the State Department doesn't get to investigate itself, determine whether or not it made errors in Benghazi. That is Congress's job.

Job Congress Reason Students Own

I have been fighting from a very young age. There is no fear there. It helped me cultivate the mindset of a fighter.

Fear Age Me Mindset Fighting Young

The thing about living in New York as a writer is that you hit that age where it feels like everyone has a book all at the same time. It's like that one year where you're invited to twenty weddings.

Age Time New York Book Year You

I grew up on Wu-Tang and Tribe and Nas, all the raw, very New York-driven music. Then when I got older - in my late teens, early twenties - and that's when I started to listen to Drake and J. Cole, and so it wasn't just East-coast.

Music Early Late New Listen Tribe

There's an ecstatic side to writing. It's like jazz. It just has a life.

Life Writing Jazz Side Just Like

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