"The conviction of tragedy that rises out of……" — Alfred Kazin
"The conviction of tragedy that rises out of his [John Dos Passos's] work is the steady protest of a sensitive democratic conscience against the tyranny and the ugliness of society, against the failure of a complete human development under industrial capitalism."
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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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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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