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Quotes from The Deserters: The Contemporary Defeat of Fiction — Carl Oglesby

1935–2011 United States

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When the house is burning down around the poet's head, on grounds of what if any dispensation can the poet continue the poem?

The Deserters: The Contemporary Defeat of Fiction (1972)

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.

The Deserters: The Contemporary Defeat of Fiction (1972)

Culture, ... that standard shield of class, is allowed to surface only in order to become more evidence of ... vanity.

The Deserters: The Contemporary Defeat of Fiction (1972)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Carl Oglesby (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.