Barney Rosset famous quotes

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Opens up a whole new view of Beckett. The strong mutual attraction between Beckett and Cunard may help explain the leftist political views he expressed both in these superb and long-neglected translations for Negro and elsewhere in his work.
-- Barney Rosset

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If you have freedom of speech, you have freedom of speech,
-- Barney Rosset

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Waiting for Godot was not allowed. Neither was Henry Miller. The Soviets condemned them both. Miller would have been used as an example of decadence, being a very good analyst of how terrible and monstrous American culture was. That they liked, but they wouldn't publish him. I guess it must have been the sex. With Beckett, it must have been the hopelessness.
-- Barney Rosset

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We thought a magazine, even a self proclaimed literary review, had to be involved in politics. We felt sex was healthy and made (then) bold use of fiction and graphics so declaring. We operated on a shoestring and still got our issues out on time. In short, we had a ball.
-- Barney Rosset

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Winning has a joy and discrete purity to it that cannot be replaced by anything else. Winning is important to any man's or woman's sense of satisfaction and well-being. Winning is not everything; but it is something powerful, indeed beautiful, in itself, something as necessary to the strong spirit as striving is necessary to the healthy character.
Have a determination that is strong enough to move walls.
I did not feel a particularly strong call to any one subject, but read voraciously and widely and began to find science interesting.
I think I feel rather differently about sympathy to what seems the normal view. I like just to feel it is there, but not always expressed.
I take a grave view of the press. It is the weak slat under the bed of democracy
To read is to fly: it is to soar to a point of vantage which gives a view over wide terrains of history, human variety, ideas, shared experience and the fruits of many inquiries.
Many will view the compromises that will be made during your negotiations as painful concessions. But why not view them as peace offerings, ones that will provide in return the priceless gifts of hope, security and freedom for our children and our children's?
Bro Snow said I would live to see the time when brothers and sisters would marry each other in this church. All our horror at such an union was due entirely to prejudice and the offspring of such union would be healthy and pure as any other. These were the decided views of Pres. Young when alive, for Bro. S. talked to him freely on this matter.
I don't know how long a child will remain utterly static in front of the television, but my guess is that it could be well into their thirties.
Autumn can be glorious but menacing too - the long shadows, brisk winds, scurrying leaves, impending frost.

Barney Rosset famous quotes

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