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Alfred Kazin has 21 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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I liked reading and working out my ideas in the midst of that endless crowd walking in and out of the (library)…
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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 in alternate…
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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 and the…
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Walking I am unbound, and find that precious unity of life and imagination, that silent outgoing self, which is so easy to…
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Art changes all the time, but it never "improves." It may go down, or up, but it never improves as technology and…
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What need had the businessman to scribble or philosophize when he dominated the imagination of his time and the frantic materialism that…
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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 business but…
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It is a good sign in a nation when things are done badly. It shows that all the people are doing them.…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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I think London's sexy because it's so full of eccentrics.
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People like eccentrics. Therefore they will leave me alone, saying that I am a mad clown.
— Vaslav Nijinsky
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I do not know of any salvation for society except through eccentrics, misfits, dissenters, people who protest,
— William O. Douglas
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Too much of what passes for design now is theater. It's one thing to be eccentric- and by the way, most eccentrics…
— Albert Hadley
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We are the puzzle pieces who seldom fit with other puzzle pieces. Romantics, idealists, eccentrics, we inhabit single-dom as our natural resting…
— Sasha Cagen
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Schools that cannot tolerate interesting & enthusiastic eccentrics who work better alone than together are devoid of flexibility & spirit
— Andy Hargreaves
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It's always nice when the eccentrics show up.
— Alex Cox
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Abandonment of slavery is also the banishment of the chimera of security. The world will not change overnight, and liberation will not…
— Germaine Greer
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Without bigots, eccentrics, cranks and heretics the world would not progress.
— Gelett Burgess
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Is it strange, then, that in a literature so concerned with realism and with personal liberation this refusal and impoverishment of the…
— Alfred Kazin
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The English like eccentrics. They just don't like them living next door.
— Julian Clary
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