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Top 10 Anthony Lane Quotes (2025 Update)

Anthony Lane Quote: “No new reader, however charitable, could open “Fifty Shades of Grey,” browse a few paragraphs, and reasonably conclude that the author was writing in her first language, or even her fourth.”

1. “No new reader, however charitable, could open “Fifty Shades of Grey,” browse a few paragraphs, and reasonably conclude that the author was writing in her first language, or even her fourth.”

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Anthony Lane Quote: “The general opinion of Revenge of the Sith seems to be that it marks a distinct improvement on the last two episodes, The Phantom Menace and Attack of the Clones. True, but only in the same way that dying from natural causes is preferable to crucifixion.”

2. “The general opinion of Revenge of the Sith seems to be that it marks a distinct improvement on the last two episodes, The Phantom Menace and Attack of the Clones. True, but only in the same way that dying from natural causes is preferable to crucifixion.”

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Anthony Lane Quote: “Children, viewed from one angle, are philosophy in motion.”

3. “Children, viewed from one angle, are philosophy in motion.”

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Anthony Lane Quote: “That is why the ideal literary diet consists of trash and classics; all that has survived, and all that has no reason to survive – books you can read without thinking, and books you have to read if you want to think at all.”

4. “That is why the ideal literary diet consists of trash and classics; all that has survived, and all that has no reason to survive – books you can read without thinking, and books you have to read if you want to think at all.”

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Anthony Lane Quote: “The obvious precedent for Beijing 2008 was the Berlin Olympics, in 1936. Both were showcases for a muscle-flexing nation, although Hitler made an elementary error when he chose not to dress his young National Socialists in lime-green catsuits laced with twinkling fairy lights.”

5. “The obvious precedent for Beijing 2008 was the Berlin Olympics, in 1936. Both were showcases for a muscle-flexing nation, although Hitler made an elementary error when he chose not to dress his young National Socialists in lime-green catsuits laced with twinkling fairy lights.”

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Anthony Lane Quote: “There’s no two ways about it, Tolkien fans are a funny bunch. I should know, for I was one of them. Been there, done that, read the book, gone mad. I first took on The Lord of the Rings at the age of eleven or twelve; to be precise, I began it at the age of eleven and finished at the age of twelve. It was, and remains, not a book that you happen to read, like any other, but a book that happens to you: a chunk bitten out of your life.”

6. “There’s no two ways about it, Tolkien fans are a funny bunch. I should know, for I was one of them. Been there, done that, read the book, gone mad. I first took on The Lord of the Rings at the age of eleven or twelve; to be precise, I began it at the age of eleven and finished at the age of twelve. It was, and remains, not a book that you happen to read, like any other, but a book that happens to you: a chunk bitten out of your life.”

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Anthony Lane Quote: “So much to relish and remember.”

7. “So much to relish and remember.”

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Anthony Lane Quote: “I do have one very brutal writing ritual. If I’m working in the morning, I don’t allow myself a cup of tea until I’ve written two paragraphs. It’s harsh.”

8. “I do have one very brutal writing ritual. If I’m working in the morning, I don’t allow myself a cup of tea until I’ve written two paragraphs. It’s harsh.”

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Anthony Lane Quote: “We happen upon ourselves when nothing much happens to us, and we are transformed in the process.”

9. “We happen upon ourselves when nothing much happens to us, and we are transformed in the process.”

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Anthony Lane Quote: “We are not merely tempered and schooled by failure but compelled, in however subtle a fashion, to become something other than we were.”

10. “We are not merely tempered and schooled by failure but compelled, in however subtle a fashion, to become something other than we were.”

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Anthony Lane Quote: “Youth is a clearer witness to the world.”

11. “Youth is a clearer witness to the world.”

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Anthony Lane Quote: “Our age is so resolutely unheroic, and the employment opportunities for registered demigods are now so scarce, that all we can do, in our enfeebled state, is laugh with envy and disbelief at the memory of those who still had the wit and the wherewithal to live large.”

12. “Our age is so resolutely unheroic, and the employment opportunities for registered demigods are now so scarce, that all we can do, in our enfeebled state, is laugh with envy and disbelief at the memory of those who still had the wit and the wherewithal to live large.”

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Anthony Lane Quote: “English fondness for France is normally a sort of neutron love: take away the people and leave the buildings standing.”

13. “English fondness for France is normally a sort of neutron love: take away the people and leave the buildings standing.”

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