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Carl Oglesby
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“In a strong sense, the Old Right and the New Left are morally and politically coordinate.”
Carl Oglesby (1935–2011) said by 2011 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When the house is burning down around the poet's head, on grounds of what if any dispensation can the poet continue the poem?”
Carl Oglesby (1935–2011) said by 2011 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In the end, very like Camus, [Joseph] Heller has tried to buy time for himself and his culture, snarled with lunacy and injustice as it is, by wrapping up everything in a tissue of cynicism and privileged impotence. History being insufferable but unchangeable, he says the good man is therefore morally reprieved from the awful sentence of having to change it. In the company of Camus' solitary rebel, he need only desert.”
Carl Oglesby (1935–2011) said by 2011 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“What Heller finally offers us super-sensitive Westerners is a contemporary world in which we may ignore what threatens us, ... a world in which the summons to partisanship has been muffled if not ridiculed by a nihilism which has recently discovered gaiety, a despair which has learned to frolic in the ruins of a certain hope.”
Carl Oglesby (1935–2011) said by 2011 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The conscience exists, standing before us now asking not to be created or perfected but to be chosen and defended, in need of champions, not exiles. Any fiction which refuses that request is henceforth a collaborationist fiction.”
Carl Oglesby (1935–2011) said by 2011 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Culture, ... that standard shield of class, is allowed to surface only in order to become more evidence of ... vanity.”
Carl Oglesby (1935–2011) said by 2011 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source