Quotes with parasitic

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• We are becoming like cats, slyly parasitic, enjoying an indifferent domesticity. Nice and snug in the social, our historic passions have withdrawn into the glow of an artificial coziness, and our half-closed eyes now seek little other than the peaceful parade of television pictures.

  Jean Baudrillard
  French sociologist and philosopher. (1929 - 2007)
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• Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art.

  Kenneth Tynan
  English theater critic and writer (1927 - 1980)
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• I wouldn't describe that "position" as "parasitic." I'd describe that experience as "edifying." I don't merely write from a critical intellectual distance. I actually live around here.

  Bruce Sterling
  American science fiction author (1954 - )
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• I wouldn't describe that 'position' as 'parasitic.' I'd describe that experience as 'edifying.' I don't merely write from a critical intellectual distance. I actually live around here.

  Bruce Sterling
  American science fiction author (1954 - )
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• It is not really our country so much is the problem, it's sort of the parasitic relationship that Canada, and France, and other countries have towards us.

  Bob Corker
  American businessman and politician (1952 - )
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• Lesbian feminists, for all their ideals of sisterhood and solidarity, can treat each other with a fickleness, a parasitic exploitativeness, and vicious spite that have to be seen to be believed.

  Vamps and Tramps (1994)

  Camille Paglia
  American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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Subjects in these quotes:

• exploitativeness
• relationship
• half-closed
• television
• experience
• sisterhood

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