Talk:Mary Schmich

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• Good art is art that allows you to enter it from a variety of angles and to emerge with a variety of views.

• Consider the lowly word if. If can launch any accusation into the public arena in the guise of fact. If can poison a life as surely as cyanide. Grease a sentence with if and you can skid from speculation to impeachment in the time it takes to say, Tricky Dick.

• You can map your life through your favorite movies, and no two people's maps will be the same.

• The movies we love and admire are to some extent a function of who we are when we see them.

• You can figure out who you were by which movies you loved when.

• TV happens. And once it's happened, it's gone. When it's gone, you move on, no tears, no tantrums, no videotape.

• All this situation does is remind people of the incredible power and potency of the Internet.