"Is it strange, then, that in a literature……" — Alfred Kazin
"Is it strange, then, that in a literature so concerned with realism and with personal liberation this refusal and impoverishment of the life of the spirit have always nourished the screamers, the eccentrics, the pseudo-Whitmans, the calculating terrorists?"
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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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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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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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'Easter' is a movable event, calculated by the relative positions of sun and moon, an impossible way of fixing year…
— Annie Besant
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I know that the right kind of political leader for the Labour Party is a desiccated calculating machine.
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I have always considered "Pascal's Wager" a questionable bet to place. Any God worth "believing in" would surely prefer an…
— Alan Dershowitz
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The natural formation of the country is the soldier's best ally; but a power of estimating the adversary, of controlling…
— Sun Tzu
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Sin in this country has been always said to be rather calculating than impulsive.
— Frank Moore Colby
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People talk about skating, puck handling and shooting, but the whole sport is angles and caroms, forgetting the straight direction…
— Wayne Gretzky
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Two people have been living in you all your life. One is the ego, garrulous, demanding, hysterical, calculating - the…
— Sogyal Rinpoche
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Drop the mind and the divine. God is not an object, it is a merger. The mind resists a merger,…
— Rajneesh
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Just understand, don`t choose - don`t choose even choicelessness. Simply understand the whole situation: that whatsoever you choose, whatsoever you…
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The duty of the artist is not to be calculating in any sense, so that he may be free himself…
— Karel Appel
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On Sept 15th [1852] Mr Goulburn, Chancellor of the Exchequer, asked my opinion on the utility of Mr Babbage's calculating…
— Unknown Author
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The reason for your poor projections is often right in front of you. Whether you are using statistical analysis or…
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