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Barry Wightman
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Book Review: Mr. Know-It-All
(This review was originally published by the Washington Independent Review of Books on June 28, 2019.)
Mr. Know-It-All: The Tarnished Wisdom of a Filth Elder
By John Waters
All those midnight shows at the Bijou Theatre in Hipsterville USA featuring seedy movies like “Pink Flamingoes,” “Polyester,” “Serial Mom”— full disclosure: I never saw ‘em. And now I feel bad, like I missed that disreputable
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Pepperland
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Back to it and back to it and back to it. 20th century American poetry pushing the boundaries...
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“You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.”
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"Where to begin with Sandy Koufax? Which mark is bigger, the one he left in terms of wins and losses, strikeouts, clutch games and no-hitters? Or the one he left as a person, an individual who stuck to his way of going about his life?
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“The aim of literature ... is the creation of a strange object covered with fur which breaks your heart.”
― Come Back, Dr. Caligari
― Come Back, Dr. Caligari
“And how should we behave during this Apocalypse? We should be unusually kind to one another, certainly. But we should also stop being so serious. Jokes help a lot. And get a dog, if you don't already have one ... I'm out of here.”
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“A screaming comes across the sky.”
― Gravity's Rainbow
― Gravity's Rainbow
“I began to parse the sentence. This is what English majors do. It's what we're trained to do. We don't know how to do anything else, except drive cabs.”
― The Heart of Darkness Club
― The Heart of Darkness Club
“You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.”
― Song of Solomon
― Song of Solomon
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May 02, 2013 09:21AM
Thanks for the add Barry!
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