"I burned my candle at both ends, And now have neither foes nor friends."

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Source : Samuel Hoffenstein (1954). “Complete Poetry”

Samuel Hoffenstein

#Friendship Quotes #Burned Quotes #Foe Quotes

“She [Evelina] is not, indeed, like most modern young ladies; to be known in half an hour; her modest worth, and fearful excellence, require both time and encouragement to show themselves.”
“What in thinking only occasionally and quasi-metaphorically happens, to retreat from the world of appearances, takes place in aging and dying as an appearanceâ€¦ in this sense thinking is an anticipation of dying (ceasing, â€˜to cease to be among menâ€™) just as action in the sense of â€˜to make a beginningâ€™ is a repetition of birth.”
“Either love your players or get out of coaching.”
“The '90s were a time when not just the movie business, but every aspect of American life, became a lot more corporate. There's a line in Jonathan Franzen's essay "Perchance to Dream" about how "the rich lateral dramas of local manners have been replaced by a single vertical drama, that of commercial generality." I wanted to examine that great homogenizing force that came in during the '90s, since Hollywood seemed a place where it was particularly active.”
“I was the first Blunt ever elected to anything.”
“I feel like a ghost wandering in a world grown alien. I cannot cast out the old way of writing and I cannot acquire the new. I have made an intense effort to feel the musical manner of today, but it will not come to me.”

Source : "Sergei Rachmaninoff: A Lifetime in Music". Book by Sergei Bertensson and Jay Leyda, p. 351, 2002.
“Who was it recently invented some machine that will enable her to sign a book from 5,000 miles away? Margaret Atwood. Get off your arse, love, and sign it in person. Publishers and circumstance made you a bestselling author. Give a little back.”
“I think everybody's talking about like facts and truth and you know like that 'We're here to fact check' and all of that, that's the base material of journalism. You cannot have journalism without facts and truth. But if facts and truth were what actually you know sort of moved people's lives and moved their decision-making like the election would have had a different outcome.”

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