"It’s one thing if everyone wears the same shoes or drinks the same soda. But the world of literature is the last place in which globalization should mean homogeneity."

-- Benjamin Moser

#Mean Quotes #Shoes Quotes #Literature Quotes

“We're doing fine. The fire is no closer today than it was yesterday or the day before. They expected or feared very high winds last night, and they didn't get them.”
“There is a very holy and a very terrible isolation for the conscience of every man who seeks to read the destiny in affairs for others as well as for himself, for a nation as well as for individuals. That privacy no man can intrude upon. That lonely search of the spirit for the right perhaps no man can assist.”
“Your denomination is not defined by a style. So donâ€™t let style become a point of contention.”
“I went to the Goodman School of Drama in Chicago.”
“Invention depends altogether upon execution or organization; as that is right or wrong so is the invention perfect or imperfect.”
“The public is usually slow to catch on to new things, and its important that musicians stick to their guns and not look for that instant gratification.”
“My best efforts were some modern things that looked like very lousy Matisses. Thank God I had the sense to realize they were lousy, and leave Paris.”
“Portland is a really great city, especially because I'm a shopper and there's no sales tax! That really adds up so fast, because in California, a $1000 pair of shoes ends up costing another $100.”

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