Christopher Lehmann-Haupt famous quotes

03-23-2025

The beginning of a plot is the prompting of desire.
-- Christopher Lehmann-Haupt

#Writing #Desire #Plot
There is no medical proof that television causes brain damage - at least from over five feet away. In fact, TV is probably the least physically harmful of all the narcotics known to man.
-- Christopher Lehmann-Haupt

#Men #Feet #Brain
Even when you disagree with her, she electrifies your mind.
-- Christopher Lehmann-Haupt

#Mind #Disagree
In the spirit of Julian Barnes's Flaubert's Parrot and Alain de Botton's How Proust Can Change Your Life, Mr. Dyer's Out of Sheer Rage keeps circling its subject in widening loops and then darting at it when you least expect it . . . a wild book.
-- Christopher Lehmann-Haupt

#Book #Spirit #Proust
Mr. Frazier makes me laugh out loud.
-- Christopher Lehmann-Haupt

#Laughing #Make Me Laugh #Loud
To be crazy is not necessarily to writhe in snake pits or converse with imaginary gods. It can sometimes be not knowing what to do in the morning.
-- Christopher Lehmann-Haupt

#Morning #Crazy #Snakes
Rice Krispies happens to be one of my favorite junk foods, just as I regard Michener as superior among junk writers.
-- Christopher Lehmann-Haupt

#Junk #My Favorite #Junk Food
The dream is everything in the sport of fishing. You dream with every cast of your fly that the shadowy form will finally rise to your fly. You dream as you drop off to sleep at night about the lunker that got loose just as you were about to net it.
-- Christopher Lehmann-Haupt

#Sports #Dream #Sleep
Even if language is a living evolving organism, we don't have to embrace all the changes that occur during our lifetimes. If language is so alive, it can get sick.
-- Christopher Lehmann-Haupt

#Sick #Alive #Language
One is happy to report that Israel Shenker is still at the aerosol stage. His energy is still compressed. The result distinguishes him both as a Jew and as an observer of Jews.
-- Christopher Lehmann-Haupt

#Israel #Energy #Results
A brilliant and challenging discussion presented with extraordinary clarity.
-- Christopher Lehmann-Haupt

#Challenges #Brilliant #Clarity

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