"A critic at best is a waiter at the great table of literature."

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Source : Louis Dudek (1992). “Paradise: Essays on Myth, Art & Reality”, Vehicule Press

Louis Dudek

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“There was less than Iâ€™d expected in the rainy-day fund that Mom had kept in the bottom of an underwear drawer in a panty hose egg labeled â€˜DEAD SPIDERS.â€™ As if I hadnâ€™t always known it was there. As if I wouldnâ€™t want to look at dead spiders.”
“Among nonclassical ions the ratio of conceptual difficulty to molecular weight reaches a maximum with the cyclopropylcarbinyl-cyclobutyl system.”
“There are many rules for the elderly in the Highway Code. I have one too, and here it is: get a bloody move on.”
“When a man is ill,he has only one wish -to gain health,and when he does -then come a hundred wishes and he turns even unhappier than when he was lying sick in bed”
“Allah Akbar! and there is no god but God!”
“The larger a star the shorter its life, but all the more fascinating its death. As it collapses within itâ€™s body, the infalling material can be no longer be compressed; the star is blown to pieces; its shattered mass realeases out ward at the speed of light.”
“I've written about 2,000 short stories; I've only published 300 and I feel I'm still learning. Any man who keeps working is not a failure. He may not be a great writer, but if he applies the old fashioned virtues of hard, constant labor, he'll eventually make some kind of career for himself as a writer. Ray Bradbury, 1967 interview (Doing the Math - that means for every story he sold, he wrote six "un-publishable" ones. Keep typing!)”
“I'm not a prostitute but I can give you what you want”

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