Alfred A. Knopf, Sr. famous quotes

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An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf, Sr.

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Everything we know has its origin in questions. Questions, we might say, are the principal intellectual instruments available to human beings. Then how is it possible that no more than one in one hundred students has ever been exposed to an extended and systematic study of the art and science of question-asking? How come Alan Bloom did not mention this, or E. D. Hirsh, Jr., or so many others who have written books on how to improve our schools? Did they simply fail to notice that the principal intellectual instrument available to huÂman beings is not examined in school?
-- Alfred A. Knopf, Sr.

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The writer who can't do his job looks to his editor to do it for him, though he won't dream of sharing his royalties with that editor.
-- Alfred A. Knopf, Sr.

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Nature played a cruel trick on her by giving her a waxed mustache.
We'll love you just the way you are if you're perfect.
A brain of feathers, and a heart of lead.
She was like a sinking ship firing on the rescuers.
Coward: One who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs.
This looks like one of those unwelcome social summonses which call upon a man either to be bored or to lie.
The time for action is past! Now is the time for senseless bickering!
He (Jeremy Clarkson) is the last man standing on the beach commanding the glaciers' melt waters to go back
Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.
Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose, But young men think it is, and we were young.

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