Leslie Fiedler Quotes
If there's one thing I can't stand, it's somebody doing something because I pushed them in that direction.
Fiedler, Leslie. Conversations with Leslie Fiedler. Edited by Jeffrey J. Folks, Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1999.
The British Prime Minster was supporting the partition of India so there would be an independent Muslim Pakistan which India had the power to do before they granted independence, Nehru told him that this would be against the wishes of the majority Hindus of India and therefore Attlee should reconsider. But to not have a Muslim independent state would mean compelling the Muslims to be in a unified country which they opposed. So while Nehru's point was well taken, there was no way that Attlee could do anything that would not involve compulsion of at least one of the two major factions in India, and as things would turn out, both sides felt compelled and limited their cooperation with each other and the British.
Nixon staff assistant Chuck Coulson used a variant of this quotation. See {628753}.
Leslie Aaron Fiedler was an American literary critic, known for his interest in mythography and his championing of genre fiction. His work incorporates the application of psychological theories to American literature. Fiedler's most renowned work consists of Love and Death in the American Novel (1960). A retrospective article on Leslie Fiedler in the New York Times Book Review in 1965 referred to Love and Death in the American Novel as "one of the great, essential books on the American imagination . . . an accepted major work." This groundbreaking work views in depth both American literature and character from the time of the American Revolution to the present. From it, there emerges Fiedler's once scandalous—now increasingly accepted—judgement that our literature is incapable of dealing with adult sexuality and is pathologically obsessed with death.
