Historical Sciences 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 the (library)…
• One writes to make a home for oneself, on paper, in time, in others' minds.
• When a writer talks about his work, he's talking about a love affair.
• To have a sense of history one must consider oneself a piece of history....
• We never know how much has been missing from our lives until a true writer comes along.
• If we practiced medicine like we practice education, wed look for the liver on the right side and left side in alternate…
• Altogether beautiful in the power of its feeling. As beautiful as anything in Thoreau or Hemingway.
• Brooklyn Heights itself is a window on the port. Here, where the perspective is fixed by the towers of Manhattan and the…
• Walking I am unbound, and find that precious unity of life and imagination, that silent outgoing self, which is so easy to…
• Art changes all the time, but it never "improves." It may go down, or up, but it never improves as technology and…
• What need had the businessman to scribble or philosophize when he dominated the imagination of his time and the frantic materialism that…
• 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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