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«Leaving sex to the feminists is like letting your dog vacation at the taxidermist»
«Our major universities are now stuck with an army of pedestrian, toadying careerists, Fifties types who wave around Sixties banners to conceal their record of ruthless, beaver-like tunneling to the top.»
Author: Camille Paglia
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«History shows that male homosexuality, which like prostitution flourishes with urbanization and soon becomes predictably ritualized, always tends toward decadence»
Author: Camille Paglia
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«The visual is sorely undervalued in modern scholarship. Art history has attained only a fraction of the conceptual sophistication of literary criticism. Drunk with self-love, criticism has hugely overestimated the centrality of language to western culture. It has failed to see the electrifying sign language of images.»
Author: Camille Paglia
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«Despite crime's omnipresence, things work in society, because biology compels it. Order eventually restores itself, by psychic equilibrium.»
«Modern bodybuilding is ritual, religion, sport, art, and science, awash in Western chemistry and mathematics. Defying nature, it surpasses it.»
Author: Camille Paglia
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awash, bodybuilding, chemistry, defying, modern science, ritual, surpasses
«The trauma of the Sixties persuaded me that my generation's egalitarianism was a sentimental error. I now see the hierarchical as both beautiful and necessary. Efficiency liberates; egalitarianism tangles, delays, blocks, deadens.»
Author: Camille Paglia
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deaden, deadened, deadening, deadens, efficiency, egalitarianism, hierarchical, persuaded, sentimental, tangles, trauma
«There is no true expertise in the humanities without knowing all of the humanities. Art is a vast, ancient interconnected web-work, a fabricated tradition. Over-concentration on any one point is a distortion.»
Author: Camille Paglia
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distortion, expertise, fabricate, fabricated, fabricating, humanities, interconnected, with expertise
«Out with stereotypes, feminism proclaims. But stereotypes are the west's stunning sexual personae, the vehicles of art's assault against nature. The moment there is imagination, there is myth.»
«American universities are organized on the principle of the nuclear rather than the extended family. Graduate students are grimly trained to be technicians rather than connoisseurs. The old German style of universal scholarship has gone.»
Author: Camille Paglia
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connoisseur, connoisseurs, extended, extended family, German, graduate student, graduate students, grimly, nuclear family, scholarship, technician, technicians, The Connoisseur, universities
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