"I have a hard time defending the production……" — Steve Almond
"I have a hard time defending the production of candy, given that it is basically crack for children and makes them dependent in unwholesome ways."
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26 Quotes by Steve Almond
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- Nothing on Earth is so beautiful as the final haul on Halloween night.
- Art arises from loss. I wish this weren't the case. I wish that every time I met a new woman…
- Most forms of rage, after all, are only sloppy cloaks for grief.
- It is certainly true that cooking is therapeutic, creative and all those other faintly creepy self-helpish words. I would love…
- The single biggest reason I got my stories taken in various literary magazines - and I want to stress this…
- All language is an aspiration to music.
- There's something incredibly liberating about a holiday that encourages children to take candy from strangers
- To look at the work of your peers, and learn how to explain with kindness and precision, the nature of…
- Why are people so fascinated by how to eat Valomilks?’ She said, ‘Well, Dad, they’re round and they’re messy. But…
- Our lazy embrace of Stewart and Colbert is a testament to our own impoverished comic standards. We have come to…
- We are all, in the private kingdom of our hearts, desperate for the company of a wise, true friend. Someone…