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I live in a rather special world. I know only one person who voted for Nixon. Where they… — Pauline Kael

I live in a rather special world. I know only one person who voted for Nixon. Where they are I don't know. They're outside my ken. But sometimes when I'm in a theater I can feel them.

Pauline Kael
1972
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Remark in an address to the Modern Language Association after Richard Nixon's landslide election win in 1972.

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1972
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Pauline Kael
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Kael, Pauline. Quoted in "Critics Here Focus on Films As Language Conference Opens." Written by Israel Shenker. The New York Times, 28 Dec. 1972. Originally stated in a lecture at the Modern Language Association, Dec. 1972.

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