Best 11 quotes of Christopher Lehmann-haupt on MyQuotes

A brilliant and challenging discussion presented with extraordinary clarity.

Even if language is a living evolving organism, we don't have to embrace all the changes that occur during our lifetimes. If language is so alive, it can get sick.

Even when you disagree with her, she electrifies your mind.

In the spirit of Julian Barnes's Flaubert's Parrot and Alain de Botton's How Proust Can Change Your Life, Mr. Dyer's Out of Sheer Rage keeps circling its subject in widening loops and then darting at it when you least expect it . . . a wild book.

Mr. Frazier makes me laugh out loud.

One is happy to report that Israel Shenker is still at the aerosol stage. His energy is still compressed. The result distinguishes him both as a Jew and as an observer of Jews.

Rice Krispies happens to be one of my favorite junk foods, just as I regard Michener as superior among junk writers.

The beginning of a plot is the prompting of desire.

There is no medical proof that television causes brain damage - at least from over five feet away. In fact, TV is probably the least physically harmful of all the narcotics known to man.

There's an enormous difference between being a critic and a reviewer. The reviewer reacts to the experience of that book.

To be crazy is not necessarily to writhe in snake pits or converse with imaginary gods. It can sometimes be not knowing what to do in the morning.