"One can't write for all readers. A poet cannot write for people who don't like poetry."

-- Nathalie Sarraute

#Writing Quotes #People Quotes #Poet Quotes

“I would love an extension, who wouldn't? If they offer me a $35 million-a-year extension, I'll sign it right now. I won't even read the contract. I'm just here to take care of business and I know can help give the city what it's looking for.”
“Oh, a trouble's a ton, or a trouble's an ounce Or a trouble is what you make it, And it isn't the fact that you're hurt that counts, But only how did you take it.”

Source : Edmund Vance Cooke, “How DID You Die?”
“We live in a dark and romantic and quite tragic world.”
“It is not the most pleasant employment to spend eight hours a day in a counting house.”
“No court can make time stand still.”
“I think like almost everything in evolution, the old forms persist. New forms come along - not always, of course; there are species and whole lineages that go extinct - but basically novels and plays, and so on, will continue to exist. Jokes, as the lowest-cost form of narrative, will certainly continue to exist. They're a bit like microbes in the biological world. They're low-cost and they're everywhere. They're the most successful form of life, even though they're not the ones we think about most.”
“The two great dividers are religion and LANGUAGE”
“In dress, habits, manners, provincialism, routine and narrowness, he acquired that charming insolence, that irritating completeness, that sophisticated crassness, that overbalanced poise that makes the Manhattan gentleman so delightfully small in its greatness.”

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