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Christopher Nolan's astounding third Batman feature, 'The Dark Knight Rises,' represents the true maturation of the superhero movie - and provides the key to understanding the bottomless craving moviegoers have for these films, 34 years after the Christopher Reeve Superman gave birth to the genre. ↗

— John Podhoretz

#astounding #batman #birth #bottomless #christopher

Comedians and impressionists used to be two different showbiz animals entirely, but now there's no such thing as a comedian who doesn't do impressions. ↗

— John Podhoretz

#comedians #different #entirely #impressionists #impressions

Electoral contests have nothing but polls, which is why people have grown so obsessed with them; we're desperate for an objective rendering of what is happening and what may happen. ↗

— John Podhoretz

#desperate #electoral #grown #happen #happening

The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins? ↗

— Edgar Allan Poe

#best #boundaries #death #divide #ends

The true genius shudders at incompleteness - and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be. ↗

— Edgar Allan Poe

#genius #incompleteness #prefers #saying #should

They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night. ↗

— Edgar Allan Poe

#day #dream #escape #many #night

A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this - that offences against Charity are about the only ones which men on their death-beds can be made - not to understand - but to feel - as crime. ↗

— Edgar Allan Poe

#against #argument #charity #christ #crime

There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man. ↗

— Edgar Allan Poe

#directly #fidelity #frequent #friendship #goes

To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness. ↗

— Edgar Allan Poe

#great #great man #greatness #himself #little

There are few cases in which mere popularity should be considered a proper test of merit; but the case of song-writing is, I think, one of the few. ↗

— Edgar Allan Poe

#cases #considered #few #i #i think