Richard Norton Smith famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

The American people are not uniquely, but characteristically the most spontaneously generous in the world and you're seeing that all over this country in Web sites of charitable organizations that are crashing because of the overwhelming desire on the part of ordinary people to help out.
-- Richard Norton Smith

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When we're talking about the "American response" to any disaster, it's not just a government response, an official response, it's a popular response.
-- Richard Norton Smith

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David Pietrusza has a gift for making the past both real and dramatically gripping.
-- Richard Norton Smith

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A country scratching a lazy irritation at sagging doorjambs and late trains, whose greatest attribute is a collective, smelly tolerance, where a chap will put up with almost everything, which means he won't care about anything enough to get out of a chair.A country of public insouciance and private, grubby guilt, where you can believe anything as long as you don't believe it too fervently. A country where the highest aspiration is for a quiet life.
The obedient in art are always the forgotten . . . The country is glorious but its beauties are unknown, and but waiting for a real live artist to splash them onto canvas . . . Chop your own path. Get off the car track.
Even if my country remains in war with yours. . .remember. . . i am not your enemy.
I am raising my voice as a citizen of the country. I don?t want to enter politics.
A hero would die for his country, but he'd much rather live for it.
The fighter (like the writer) must stand alone. If he loses he cannot call an executive conference and throw off on a vice president or the assistant sales manager. He is consequently resented by fractional characters who cannot live outside an organization.
We are in an age of religious complexity. The simplicity which is in Christ is rarely found among us. In its stead are programs, methods, organizations, and a world of nervous activities which occupy time and attention but can never satisfy the longing of the heart.
My goal has been to encourage jointness, to push people to think of affiliations rather than to operate as solo entrepreneurs.
Major sports are major parts of society. It's not anomalous to have people who love sports come from other parts of that society.
Science fiction is a field of writing where, month after month, every printed word implies to hundreds of thousands of people: 'There is change. Look, today's fantastic story is tomorrow's fact.

Richard Norton Smith famous quotes

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