Citas de Christopher Lehmann-Haupt

• There's an enormous difference between being a critic and a reviewer. The reviewer reacts to the experience of that book.

  Christopher Lehmann-Haupt

  Book, Differences, Enormous

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• No hay pruebas médicas de que la televisión cause daños cerebrales, al menos a más de metro y medio de distancia. De hecho, la televisión es probablemente el menos dañino físicamente de todos los narcóticos conocidos por el hombre.

  Christopher Lehmann-Haupt

  Men, Feet, Brain

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• Even if language is a living evolving organism, we don't have to embrace all the changes that occur during our lifetimes. If language is so alive, it can get sick.

  Christopher Lehmann-Haupt

  Sick, Alive, Language

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• The beginning of a plot is the prompting of desire.

  Christopher Lehmann-Haupt

  Writing, Desire, Plot

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• One is happy to report that Israel Shenker is still at the aerosol stage. His energy is still compressed. The result distinguishes him both as a Jew and as an observer of Jews.

  Christopher Lehmann-Haupt

  Israel, Energy, Results

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• A brilliant and challenging discussion presented with extraordinary clarity.

  Christopher Lehmann-Haupt

  Challenges, Brilliant, Clarity

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• To be crazy is not necessarily to writhe in snake pits or converse with imaginary gods. It can sometimes be not knowing what to do in the morning.

  Christopher Lehmann-Haupt

  Morning, Crazy, Snakes

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• The dream is everything in the sport of fishing. You dream with every cast of your fly that the shadowy form will finally rise to your fly. You dream as you drop off to sleep at night about the lunker that got loose just as you were about to net it.

  Christopher Lehmann-Haupt

  Sports, Dream, Sleep

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• Even when you disagree with her, she electrifies your mind.

  Christopher Lehmann-Haupt

  Mind, Disagree

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• Mr. Frazier makes me laugh out loud.

  Christopher Lehmann-Haupt

  Laughing, Make Me Laugh, Loud

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• In the spirit of Julian Barnes's Flaubert's Parrot and Alain de Botton's How Proust Can Change Your Life, Mr. Dyer's Out of Sheer Rage keeps circling its subject in widening loops and then darting at it when you least expect it . . . a wild book.

  Christopher Lehmann-Haupt

  Book, Spirit, Proust

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• Resulta que el arroz con leche es uno de mis alimentos basura favoritos, al igual que considero a Michener superior entre los escritores basura.

  Christopher Lehmann-Haupt

  Junk, My Favorite, Rice Krispies

  International Herald Tribune, August 08, 1978.

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