Harry Kemelman famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Don't think and then write it down. Think on paper.
-- Harry Kemelman

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It helps to read the sentence aloud.
-- Harry Kemelman

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In this life you sometimes have to choose between pleasing God and pleasing man. - In the long run, it's better to please God - he's more apt to remember.
-- Harry Kemelman

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If the first requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite, the second is to put in your apprenticeship as a feeder when you have enough money to pay the check but not enough to produce indifference of the total.
The only way to write is well and how you do it is your own damn business.
When I write I have no loyalty except to historical truth as I see it and care no more about British achievements and mistakes than any other.
The interesting adults are always the school failures, the weird ones, the losers, the malcontents, this isnâ€™t wishful thinking. Itâ€™s the rule.
Like most parents, I've been stumped by homework, the big questions, such as: 'What is the point of geography - the pilot always knows where we are going?'. Answer: 'If you didn't know any geography, people would think you were an American, and you wouldn't be able to put them right because you wouldn't know where they live.'
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'm always writing lyrics. I have so many lyrics on so many stray pieces of paper. Everywhere.
I felt the crumpled paper that had taken the place of my lungs expand as if released from a fist.
I dont make notes for myself because I either lose them or they make no sense to me at all. I once found a piece of paper with the note: everything. Apparently I made a note to myself not to forget everything!
Leave not a foot of verse, a foot of stone, A Page, a Grave, that they can call their own; But spread, my sons, your glory thin or thick, On passive paper, or on solid brick.

Harry Kemelman famous quotes

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