Lynn Freed famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Sentiment and nostalgia are fatal for fiction. One must go into the territory of the imagination with sure feet, hot fainting with glorious misery.
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What I am saying, I suppose, is that you write as if everyone is dead. Then you face the music. I don't know any other way to keep the teeth sharp and the spirit alive.
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I wasn't put on this earth to be housekeeper to my own child or to anyone else for that matter.
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Blumenthal goes straight to the heart in these poems. Gorgeously wrought, surprising, true, wise, elegiac, they leave me with a sense of having listened to Mozart’s Ave Verum Corpus. Who could ask for more?
-- Lynn Freed
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I never stepped foot into a Brooks Brothers before Mad Men.
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Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.
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But I'm never gonna get to a point in my life where what it costs to shoot a movie is going to determine what it is. The limits of my imagination is the only thing that's gonna stop me.
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Literature is a beautiful way of keeping the imagination alive, of visiting worlds you would never have time to in your day-to-day life. It keeps you abreast of a wider spectrum of human activities.
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A disaster where marble has been substituted for imagination.
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Imagination is the Discovering Faculty, pre-eminently ... It is that which feels & discovers what is, the REAL which we see not, which exists not for our senses... Mathematical science shows what is. It is the language of unseen relations between things... Imagination too shows what is ... Hence she is or should be especially cultivated by the truly Scientific, those who wish to enter into the worlds around us!
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I was a wild, mischievous kid, and I had tremendous imagination. Any experience I had, I'd try to reenact it.
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The interior of the earth is extremely hot – several million degrees.
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So, your dad's hot." "Thanks. He was that way when I met him, so I can't really take credit.
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If you're not hot I don't care about you.
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