"While the spoken word can travel faster, you cant take it home in your hand. Only the written word can be absorbed wholly at the convenience of the reader."

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Source : "The enduring American press: texts of talks given by a panel of distinguished journalists and scholars at a symposium marking the 200th anniversary of the Hartford Courant, Hartford, Connecticut". Book by The Hartford Courant, 1964.

Kingman Brewster, Jr.

#Home Quotes #Hands Quotes #Convenience Quotes

“My songs emerge unbidden and unplanned and completely on a schedule of their own...We have, all of us, over the years, written things that responded to the world as it slapped us in the face. Me and Nash, singing "To the Last Whale" and "Find the Cost of Freedom". Stills coming up with "For What It's Worth". These came right out of the news. People have accused us of taking stances and the truth is we don't.”
“Life seems like a haunted wood, where we tremble and crouch and cry.”

Source : Alfred Austin, “A Woman’s Apology”
“I do think that the abiding mystery of my origins has definitely had a profound effect upon my writing. There is that thing in the back of my mind where I think I don't really know who I am. And it may make it a little easier to shift around in my narrative voice.”

Source : "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. July 18, 2011.
“The marketing of homosexuality has an agenda, and that is to repopulate their population by recruiting the children of homosexuals.”

Source : "Gordon Klingenschmitt, Former Navy Chaplain, Slams Obama’s Gay Marriage Stance", www.huffingtonpost.com. May 18, 2012.
“No one grows old by living - only by losing interest in living.”

Source : Marie Beynon Lyons Ray (1948). “How to conquer your handicaps”, Indianapolis
“Like everyone else, I have my quirks. For one, I have to own only black cars and the registration has to have eights. It's not something I can explain, it's just there. Another obsession I have is smell. I have to smell good all the time.”
“Alas, I know if I ever became truly humble, I would be proud of it.”
“I think in short order all of us need to act like we are citizens with not only rights, but also duties.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com

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