"I wanted to be an artist after all, and my teachers told me these were the best authors the 20th century had to offer. But these books sucked. They were so boring and sloppy and plotless. And Bob Dylan's lyrics seemed nonsensical to me - almost like he had just gotten high and written down whatever random thoughts occurred to him."

-- Simon Rich

#Teacher Quotes #Book Quotes #Artist Quotes

“What they [Jim deMint and the oil lobby] do care about is the precedent. If they open up ANWR (Arctic National Wildlife Refuge), they'll think they can do anything to the environment - anything at all. Drilling in Yosemite? In the Grand Canyon? What's next?”
“A man who knows how to mix pleasures with business is never entirely possessed by them; he either quits or resumes them at his will; and in the use he makes of them he rather finds a relaxation than a dangerous charm that might corrupt him.”
“The only job that was ever of interest to me other than filmmaking is architecture.”
“I think one ages and one dates. I tend to have a good deal of difficulty in liking some of the new poets.”
“I know what the world exists for, but I know not how it came into existence. I see the design, but not the designer. I understand the question, but not the questioner.”
“When urbanity decays, civilization suffers and decays with it.”

Source : James Norman Hall (1942). “Under a Thatched Roof”
“Yes, know thyself: in great concerns or small, be this thy care, for this, my friend, is all.”
“Humans merely share the Earth. We can only protect the land, not own it.”

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