"Brooklyn Heights itself is a window on the……" — Alfred Kazin
"Brooklyn Heights itself is a window on the port. Here, where the perspective is fixed by the towers of Manhattan and the hills of New Jersey and Staten Island, the channels running between seem fingers of the world ocean. Here one can easily embrace the suggestion, which Whitman felt so easily, that the whole American world opens out from here, north and west."
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Alfred Kazin
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19 Quotes by Alfred Kazin
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I liked reading and working out my ideas in the midst of that endless crowd walking in and out of…
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One writes to make a home for oneself, on paper, in time, in others' minds.
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When a writer talks about his work, he's talking about a love affair.
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We never know how much has been missing from our lives until a true writer comes along.
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If we practiced medicine like we practice education, wed look for the liver on the right side and left side…
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Altogether beautiful in the power of its feeling. As beautiful as anything in Thoreau or Hemingway.
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Walking I am unbound, and find that precious unity of life and imagination, that silent outgoing self, which is so…
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Art changes all the time, but it never "improves." It may go down, or up, but it never improves as…
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What need had the businessman to scribble or philosophize when he dominated the imagination of his time and the frantic…
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Modern American literature was born in protest, born in rebellion, born out of the sense of loss and indirection which…
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