"Going back to Hemingway's work after several years is like going back to a brook where you had often fished and finding the woods as deep and cool as they used to be."

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Source : Quoted in Pete Hamill A Drinking Life (1994).

Malcolm Cowley

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“I feel like I'm waiting on something that isn't going to happen Don't complain; just work harder.”
“I did the movie [Valley of Violence] from two perspectives. You're with Ethan [Hawke] the whole movie, but for the first half, you're really with Ethan. For the second half, you're with him, but also you're with the bad guys because he kind of becomes the bad guy. No one's really good in the movie.”
“If one person has a right to something he did not earn, of necessity it requires that another person not have a right to something that he did earn.”

Source : Walter E. Williams (2015). “American Contempt for Liberty”, p.284, Hoover Institution Press
“The nuclear bomb is the most useless weapon ever invented. It can be employed to no rational purpose. It is not even an effective defense against itself.”
“I'm in mourning for my life.”
“Popular in our time, unpopular in his. So runs the stereotype of rejected genius.”
“Computers are merely ingenious devices to fulfill unimportant functions. The computer revolution is an explosion of nonsense.”
“In her religious role, the Queen is head of the Church of England, but in her civic role she cares for all her subjects, and no one is better at making everyone she meets feel valued.”

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