Frederick Crews famous quotes

Ephemerality is the little magazine's generic fate; by promptly dying it gives proof that it remained loyal to its first program.
-- Frederick Crews

#Fate #Giving #Dying

"Little magazines" are, for the most part, the mayflies of the literary world.
-- Frederick Crews

#Magazines #Literature #World

Psychoanalysis will fade away just as mesmerism and phrenology did, and for the same reason - its exploded pretensions will deprive it of recruits
-- Frederick Crews

#Phrenology #Reason #Recruit

The recovery movementis not primarily addressed to people who always knew about their sexual victimization. Its main intendedaudience is women who aren't at all sure that they were molested, and its purpose is to convince them of that face and embolden them to act upon it. As for genuine victims, the comfort they are proffered may look attractive at first, but it is of debatable long value.
-- Frederick Crews

#Recovery #Long #People

The only way you can influence your fate is to put your soul into your performance and hope it registers with the audience.

Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Hey Nana, do you remember the first time we met? I beleive in things like fate. So I think it was fate.

A diary need not be a dreary chronicle of one's movements; it should aim rather at giving salient account of some particular episode, a walk, a book, a conversation.

Give crowns and pounds and guineas But not your heart away; Give pearls away and rubies, But keep your fancy free.

I love it when the Bible gives Emily Post-like tips that are both wise and easy to follow.

Conformity may give you a quiet life; it may even bring you to a University Chair. But all change in history, all advance, comes from the nonconformists. If there had been no trouble-makers, no Dissenters, we should still be living in caves.

I love music videos, I really do. I think it's kind of sad that it's a dying art form.

Only cowards insult dying majesty.

I live now on borrowed time, waiting in the anteroom for the summons that will inevitably come. And then - I go on to the next thing, whatever it is. One doesn't, luckily, have to bother about that.