Lewis Gannett famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Gardening is a kind of disease. It infects you, you cannot escape it. When you go visiting, your eyes rove about the garden; you interrupt the serious cocktail drinking because of an irresistible impulse to get up and pull a weed.
-- Lewis Gannett

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Of all the poetry written in our generation, Frost's is most likely to stand the test of time
-- Lewis Gannett

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Less than the dust beneath thy chariot wheel, less than the weed that grows beside thy door.
And below the heimongmong, all along the ground, were weeds already spilling out over the edges, running wild in every direction.
Once again decent citizens will be able to enter this house of worship, kneel down in front of a nearly-naked man hanging from a wooden apparatus by a series of gruesome body piercings, and engage in their bizarre practices of ritualized blood-drinking and cannibalism without being assaulted by graphic images of attractive young women with bare breasts.
Smoking dope and hanging up Che's picture is no more a commitment than drinking milk and collecting postage stamps.
All I ever did was supply a demand that was pretty popular.
When I sell liquor, it's bootlegging. When my patrons serve it on a silver tray on Lakeshore Drive, it's hospitality.
A city with one newspaper... is like a man with one eye, and often the eye is glass.
I don't like it when people don't look me dead in the eye. I move my head around trying to catch their eye.
I think it's important to take a break, you know, from the public eye for a while, and give people a chance to miss you. I want longevity. I don't want to get out there and run myself ragged and spread myself thin.
As I took a step toward him your eyes met mine and I saw the silent pleading for forgiveness or acceptance. I wasn't sure which. All I knew was you were Sawyer's now. My best friend was gone. I envied him and hated him for the first time that day. He'd finaly won the one prize I thought was mine.

Lewis Gannett famous quotes

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