Deadening Quotes
'We must do something' is the unanimous refrain. 'You begin' is the deadening refrain.
- Walter Dwight

[Perhaps this is a good thing. And potentially dangerous for a novelist. The dangers are obvious. A deadening earnestness and political self-awareness that do not meet the delight component that is a story's bottom line. Too much ideological hand-wringing. We've all sat through readings by authors whose politics we admire but whose prose cannot hold us. We are reminded of the definition of] camp ... a seriousness that fails.
- Susan Sontag

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