"If we practiced medicine like we practice education,……" — Alfred Kazin
"If we practiced medicine like we practice education, wed look for the liver on the right side and left side in alternate years."
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Alfred Kazin
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19 Quotes by Alfred Kazin
Alfred Kazin has 19 quotes on this site.
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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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To have a sense of history one must consider oneself a piece of history....
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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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Altogether beautiful in the power of its feeling. As beautiful as anything in Thoreau or Hemingway.
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Brooklyn Heights itself is a window on the port. Here, where the perspective is fixed by the towers of Manhattan…
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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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A year after Hemingway died on the front page, Faulkner went off after a binge, as if dying was nobody's…
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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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Compassion is an alternate perception
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For if as scientists we seek simplicity, then obviously we try the simplest surviving theory first, and retreat from it…
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Strange, that some of us, with quick alternate vision, see beyond our infatuations, and even while we rave on the…
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Even if chords are simple, they should rub. They should have dissonances in them. I've always used a lot of…
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With the bass it's another thing. I don't need to use alternate thumb-picking as much. Even though Jack says he…
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I typically will work on a lyric in a three-ring binder. On the right side, I'll write the lyric, and…
— James Taylor
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The absolute minimum for effective exercise is three times a week on alternate days for at least half an hour.
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An alternate explanation is not a refutation.
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I was the classic middle child in some ways, the one who could have been a priest in an alternate…
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Whenever I become discouraged (which is on alternate Tuesdays, between three and four) I lift my spirits by remembering: The…
— Howard Zinn
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Carla Hesse has given us an astonishing new look at women's struggle for independent expression and moral autonomy during the…
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