Quotes 61 till 80 of 146.
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Jazz will endure just as long people hear it through their feet instead of their brains.
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Just like those who are incurably ill, the aged know everything about their dying except exactly when.
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Justice is never given; it is exacted and the struggle must be continuous for freedom is never a final fact, but a continuing evolving process to higher and higher levels of human, social, economic, political and religious relationship.
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Life has a practice of living you, if you don't live it.
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Life is just a short period of time in which you are alive.
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Literature got me into this mess and literature is going to have to get me out of it.
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Literature isn't a moral beauty contest. Its power arises from the authority and audacity with which the impersonation is pulled off; the belief it inspires is what counts.
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Literature takes a habit of mind that has disappeared. It requires silence, some form of isolation, and sustained concentration in the presence of an enigmatic thing.
The Human Stain (2000) -
Man hands on misery to man. It deepens like a coastal shelf. Get out as early as you can, and don't have any kids yourself.
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Material blessings, when they pay beyond the category of need, are weirdly fruitful of headache.
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Maybe the best thing would be to forget being right or wrong about people and just go along for the ride. But if you can do that -- well, lucky you.
American Pastoral (1997) -
Memories of the past are not memories of facts but memories of your imaginings of the facts.
The facts: a novelist's autobiography (1989) -
My God! The English language is a form of communication! Conversation isn't just crossfire where you shoot and get shot at! Where you've got to duck for your life and aim to kill! Words aren't only bombs and bullets — no, they're little gifts, containing meanings!
Portnoy's Complaint (1969) -
Nothing bad can happen to a writer. Everything is material.
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Nothing counts but pressure, pressure, more pressure, and still more pressure through broad organized aggressive mass action.
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Nothing has a more sinister effect on art than the artist's desire to prove that he's good. The terrible temptation of idealism!
American Pastoral (1997) -
Obviously the facts are never just coming at you but are incorporated by an imagination that is formed by your previous experience. Memories of the past are not memories of facts but memories of your imaginings of the facts.
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Old age isn't a battle; old age is a massacre.
Everyman (2006)
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