Herbert Gold Quotes

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• He carried his childhood like a hurt warm bird held to his middle-aged breast.
• Literature boils with the madcap careers of writers brought to the edge by the demands of living on their nerves, wringing out their memories and…
• The fact that all of us die anyway (the rumor turns out to be true) is a mere detail in the celestial glow of imagination.…
• The would-bees take their honey from the flowers of creation.
• Conformity is inevitable when folks huddle together in rebellion.
• Catastrophe and desire are linked in our lives as the moon is linked to that reflected light from the sun which enables the eye to…
• If mankind is naturally good, he is sure going against his nature more and more of the time. It sounds like a bad joke: the…
• The magic will which makes us see the other side of our natures-dream and disaster, catastrophe and fulfillment-is the great permanent challenge of humanity.
• Isolation from power makes men look for a mob in which they can be strong.
• The steady pressure to consume, absorb, participate, receive, by eye, ear, mouth, and mail involves a cruelty to intestines, blood pressure, and psyche unparalleled in…
• Old age is wasted on the elderly: the young know what to do with it-insist on something different.
• To construct a proper privacy, making it a privilege rather than a burden, we first need to construct a community-love, family, politics, art.
• Being a writer is a rather hazardous occupation and there is a horribly high rate of writers who barely have the money for the paper…
• Diverting the internal traffic between the Writer as Angel of Light and the Writer as Hustler is that scribbling child in a grown-up body wondering…
• Sometimes he advertises himself assiduously, writing a few words and then rushing to the talk show to wave his flag.

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