"Hemingway hated me. I sold 200 million books, and he didn't. Of course most of mine sold for 25 cents, but still... you look at all this stuff with a grain of salt."

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Source : Interview with Michael Carlson, "Crime Time", 2001.

Mickey Spillane

#Book Quotes #Grain Of Salt Quotes #Looks Quotes

“As so often happens in philosophy, clever people accept a false general principle on a priori grounds and then devote endless labour and ingenuity to explaining away plain facts which obviously conflict with it.”
“I said to NFL spokesman Greg Aiello, 'You realize that's the first time anybody associated with the league has made that connection?' And I remember, he was a litttle... annoyed. He was annoyed.”
“How galling to watch someone who looks like you, who basically is you, do all the shagging you didn't get to do.”
“Most of the artists were trying to make a living, trying to get laid, trying to figure out who they were. They weren't trying to change the world. That's what other people put on them. I knew all those people. I knew them all, intimately and well. Bob Dylan. I would say that Bob Dylan is as interested in money as any person I've known in my life. That's just the truth.”
“I have very complex and complicated ideas about technology. It's such a prominent way that we communicate with each other. In ways, I think it's really positive, and in ways, I think it's really negative.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“In the middle of it all, pause and look around you. Appreciate whatâ€™s beautiful. Take in the love. Nod to whatâ€™s good and true. And then move forward one step at a time.”
“The Earth is Art, The Photographer is only a Witness.”
“The contemporary quarrel over church and state is not really about whether a wall of separation of church and state should exist or not... The real question is what does 'separation' mean?”

Source : James Davison Hunter (1992). “Culture Wars: The Struggle To Control The Family, Art, Education, Law, And Politics In America”, p.262, Basic Books

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