Quotes from Leon Wieseltier


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    What matters to me is that one identifies one's genuine obsessions, one's genuine commitments, one's genuine appetites, one pursues them seriously and far.

    Seriously | Matters | Genuine


    There are moral religious people and moral secular people, immoral religious people and immoral secular people.

    Moral | Religious | Secular


    There are times when the power of language is not the power that is needed.

    Power | Language | Needed


    Dilettantism is the sort of thing one must avoid.

    Avoid | Sort


    Her book about the money in sex gives you the feeling of the sex in money.

    Money | Sex | Feeling


    I do not value religion chiefly for its morality.

    Religion | Value | Morality


    I was not interested in spending 10 years in the culture wars.

    Culture | Spending | Wars


    Incorruptibility by money is the old story... Now it's incorruptibility by media.

    Money | Media


    The world invited me many places.

    Places | Invited


       

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