"When a writer talks about his work, he's……" — Alfred Kazin
"When a writer talks about his work, he's talking about a love affair."
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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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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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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 Affair Quotes
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one of 1,281 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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The more dubious and uncertain an instrument violence has become in international relations, the more it has gained in reputation…
— Hannah Arendt
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The proportion between the velocity with which men or animals move, and the weights they carry, is a matter of…
— Charles Babbage
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The humanitarian would, of course, have us meddle in foreign affairs as part of his program of world service.
— Irving Babbitt
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Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.
— Honore de Balzac
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I wanted to be a neurologist. That seemed to be the most difficult, most intriguing, and the most important aspect…
— Roger Bannister
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Do not measure your loss by itself; if you do, it will seem intolerable; but if you will take all…
— Saint Basil
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Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one…
— Arnold Bennett
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I started my music career at 18 and for a long while I let other people handle my affairs.
— Sophie Ellis Bextor
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Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.
— Ambrose Bierce
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A total abstainer is one who abstains from everything but abstention, and especially from inactivity in the affairs of others.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Alas for the affairs of men! When they are fortunate you might compare them to a shadow; and if they…
— Aeschylus
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