""Little magazines" are, for the most part, the mayflies of the literary world."

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Frederick Crews

#Magazines Quotes #Literature Quotes #World Quotes

“I believe in standardizing automobiles, not human beings.”
“Black musicians rhythmicized the contredanse, creating musical styles which evolved into the habanera (also known as the tango) and, later, ragtime, as well as the danza, danzÃ³n, and ultimately the danzÃ³n mambo and its offspring the cha-cha-chÃ¡.”
“It wasn't so much destroying my dancing, it was destroying me”
“When Ray Charles is concentrating he's like a piece of granite, nothing twitches, nothing, ... He sat for 25 minutes solid like that, like a stone, and I thought, 'Oh my God, if he doesn't like it I'm dead.' ... And then finally, after 25 minutes he started to talk back to the screen. I heard him say 'That's right. That's the truth.' .”
“I had nixed the idea of having children when I was myself a child, having learned in the 1960s that human overpopulation was literally crowding other species off the planet. Why create another mouth to gnaw at the overburdened earth?”
“I love rich people. Any time I needed a job, I went to a rich person. I like poor people, but they never had a job for me.”
“I like small stories.”
“The past is already gone, the future is not yet here. There's only one moment for you to live, and that is the present moment”

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