"Gertrude Stein's prose-song is a cold, black suet-pudding.... Cut it at any point, it is the same thing ... all fat, without nerve."

-- Wyndham Lewis

#Song Quotes #Cutting Quotes #Black Quotes

“Who knows better than a peasant farmer the agricultural conditions in his country or region? It is not always necessary to send an FAO expert to tell him what crops to grow or what seeds to use. Give him the seeds he asks for, and he will do the rest. Don't tell him how to renovate his irrigation system: give him the necessary equipment and he will do the job far better than us.”
“That's all it takes to get people to win football games for you.”
“Take what you want and pay for it, says God. You can have anything you want, as long as you accept that there is a price and you will have to pay it.”
“Let me dispel a few rumors so they don't fester into facts.”
“Good publishers – as one former publisher aptly put it – are market-makers in a world where it is attention, not content, that is scarce.”
“We continued to move forward without loss of time, hoping to be able to reach the wood described by the Indians before all our horses should become exhausted.”
“Ah, whither shall a maiden flee, When a bold youth so swift pursues, And siege of tenderest courtesy, With hope perseverant, still renews!”
“There are so many kinds of madness, so many ways in which the human brain may go wrong; and so often it happens that what we call madness is both reasonable and just. It is so. Yes. A little reason is good for us, a little more makes wise men of some of us--but when our reason over-grows us and we reach too far, something breaks and we go insane.”

Source : James Oliver Curwood “Works by James Oliver Curwood (Illustrated, 22 books)”, LCI

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