"The world is telling you through The New York Times and The New York Review of Books "You must shut up. You must never appear again. Because you are not relevant to us." So you have to fight their attempt to destroy you, fight to continue feeling."

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Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

James Purdy

#New York Quotes #Book Quotes #Fighting Quotes

“I'd rather report to four million people as the elected Sheriff than some governor or president, so I like reporting to the people.”
“I express things through characters because I have a fear that my own voice is irritating because thats been said to me.”
“I shall now proceed to my own experience, which hath truly convinced me, the Lord is awakened as one out of sleep; and the voice of the Lord will shake terribly the earth.”

Source : Joanna Southcott (1813). “Copies of letters sent to the clergy of Exeter. 1813. A communication sent in a letter to the Reverend Mr. P. in 1797. [1814] A dispute between the woman and the powers of darkness. 2d ed. 1813. The answer of the Lord to the powers of darkness. 2d ed. 1813. A caution and instruction to the sealed. 1807. A warning to the world. [1804] The strange effects of faith. 2d ed. 1801”
“Net - the biggest word in the language of business.”
“It is the Holy Spirit who inspired the Bible. It is the Holy Spirit who illumines the Bible.”
“A lot of artists start out as failed poets, then move on to being failed short-story writers before they finally break through to the big time and become failed novelists.”
“I don't want to know about my biggest idols. I don't want to read their autobiographies, I don't want to find out what they're really like.”

Source : "The sweetheart deal". Interview with Keith Cameron, www.theguardian.com. March 29, 2003.
“When you're on your deathbed, you probably aren't counting the movies you've made.”

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