"What need had the businessman to scribble or……" — Alfred Kazin
"What need had the businessman to scribble or philosophize when he dominated the imagination of his time and the frantic materialism that was his principle of existence had become the haunting central figure in contemporary life?"
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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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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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More Businessman Quotes
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All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.
— Aristotle
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I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.
— Lord Acton
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When did it become a problem to be a small businessman and become successful? The small businessman - like my…
— Glenn Beck
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Business opportunities are like buses, there's always another one coming.
— Richard Branson
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The most important thing is God's blessing and if you believe in God and you believe in yourself, you have…
— Mohamed Al-Fayed
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I honestly believe that there's an element in this country, in our politics, that does not want to see a…
— Herman Cain
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We as voters, have long hoped that we would get a businessman instead of a politician in order to help…
— Herman Cain
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Great businessmen are creators.
— Eric Cantona
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A businessman is the only man who is forever apologizing for his occupation.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Ours is a government of checks and balances. The Mafia and crooked businessmen make out checks, and the politicians and…
— Steve Allen
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Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.
— Winston Churchill
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I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.
— John Cleese
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