"Hemingway seems to be in a funny position. People nowadays can’t identify with him closely as a member of their own generation, and he isn’t yet historical."
― Leslie Fiedler
Topic(s):
Sympathy
More From Leslie Fiedler
- "When I was 12 years old, someone took me to see Martha Graham. It was nothing like what I thought of as serious dancing and even then I knew I was having a great experience. It was as if somebody was moving through space like no one ever did before."
- "It’s funny to be a critic."
- "I think the pattern of my essays is, A funny thing happened to me on my way through Finnegans Wake."
More In Sympathy
- "There are many types of preventive health care services that are covered, things like blood pressure medication, for example. And women are merely asking that their health be taken just as seriously."― Sandra Fluke
- "I’ve always thought of acting as more of an exercise in empathy, which is not to be confused with sympathy. You’re trying to get inside a certain emotional reality or motivational reality and try to figure out what that’s about so you can represent it."― Edward Norton
- "Interest does not tie nations together; it sometimes separates them. But sympathy and understanding does unite them."― Woodrow Wilson