"Literature boils with the madcap careers of writers……" — Herbert Gold
"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 their nightmares to extract meaning, truth, beauty."
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Herbert Gold
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15 Quotes by Herbert Gold
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He carried his childhood like a hurt warm bird held to his middle-aged breast.
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The fact that all of us die anyway (the rumor turns out to be true) is a mere detail in…
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The would-bees take their honey from the flowers of creation.
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Conformity is inevitable when folks huddle together in rebellion.
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Catastrophe and desire are linked in our lives as the moon is linked to that reflected light from the sun…
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If mankind is naturally good, he is sure going against his nature more and more of the time. It sounds…
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The magic will which makes us see the other side of our natures-dream and disaster, catastrophe and fulfillment-is the great…
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Isolation from power makes men look for a mob in which they can be strong.
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The steady pressure to consume, absorb, participate, receive, by eye, ear, mouth, and mail involves a cruelty to intestines, blood…
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Old age is wasted on the elderly: the young know what to do with it-insist on something different.
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To construct a proper privacy, making it a privilege rather than a burden, we first need to construct a community-love,…
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Being a writer is a rather hazardous occupation and there is a horribly high rate of writers who barely have…
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