Hack fiction exploits ...

Hack fiction exploits curiosity without really satisfying it or making connections between it and anything else in the world.
 Vincent Canby

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Through the magic of motion pictures, someone who's never left Peoria knows the softness of a Paris spring, the color of a Nile sunset, the sorts of vegetation one will find along the upper Amazon and that Big Ben has not yet gone digital.
 Vincent Canby
We are drawn to Twitter the way we are drawn to the scene of an accident.
 Vincent Canby
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[His acting] remains forever fixed in a time that never dates.
 Vincent Canby