"If men must die, why not in honorable pursuit of knowledge? Far be it that our ideas of manhood should be dwarfed to the size of a golden dollar."

-- George W. Melville

#Men Quotes #Ideas Quotes #Dollars Quotes

“Here's to another year and let's hope it's above ground.”
“I believe the old boys' network is a powerful one. No one gives up power and privilege willingly, do they?”
“I think there's something quite interesting about the almost tragic quality of a lot of overwrought prose, because it has a much more self-conscious awareness of its own failure to touch the real.”
“The art isn't there to be purchased - it's there to be enjoyed.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Divorce also entails the beginning of a supposition that that familial reality might have obstructed one's ability to perceive others.”
“Sometimes nothing is so solid to me as writing - I suppose that's what a vocation means - at times a torment, a bad conscience, but all in all, purpose and direction.”

Source : Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Lowell (2008). “Words in Air: The Complete Correspondence Between Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell”
“There have been linkages between the Iraqi government and al-Qaeda going back more or less a decade.”
“How do you write when you're not miserable? The solution, of course, is to make yourself miserable about not writing.”

Source : "Go Forth". Interview with Brandon Hobson, logger.believermag.com. December 17, 2013.

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