"To live a very long time... is supposed……" — James Dickey
"To live a very long time... is supposed to be the desired object of all human life. But it is not. The main thing is to ride the flood tide... How glorious it is to create! For those few moments of a lifetime when the stream is running full and deep: those are the justification for everything."
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30 Quotes by James Dickey
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I don’t believe that a reviewer or a critic can really criticize well unless he can praise well.
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