"It is always pleasant to learn that someone takes an interest in a work which one enjoyed writing"

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Source : James Schuyler (2004). “Just the Thing: Selected Letters of James Schuyler, 1951-1991”

James Schuyler

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“Set your sights not just on the next few weeks ... set your sights on the years ahead - because our vision will look that far ahead.”
“Google's a strange place. When I met Eric Schmidt, he said, "If you are kind to everybody, then you will make good decisions because people will give you good information, and if you are truthful to everybody, they will be truthful to you." That's what's different about Google. They screw up and make mistakes, but they genuinely mean the good stuff about "don't be evil."”

Source : "Feeling Lucky". Interview with Evan Ratliff, www.wired.com. July 1, 2006.
“Theism, as a way of conceiving God, has become demonstrably inadequate, and the God of theism not only is dying but is probably not revivable. If the religion of the future depends on keeping alive the definitions of theism, then the human phenomenon that we call religion will have come to an end. If Christianity depends on a theistic definition of God, then we must face the fact that we are watching this noble religious system enter the rigor mortis of its own death throes.”
“I'm not interested in forcing my music on people, and that's what the whole music industry nowadays is based on is forcing stations to play it, forcing people to listen to it.”
“You can't get all of your news from Jon Stewart, especially since it's a comedy show.”
“Here I close my opinion. I could not say less in view of questions of such gravity that go down to the very foundations of the government. If the provisions of the Constitution can be set aside by an Act of Congress, where is the course of usurpation to end? The present assault upon capital is but the beginning. It will be but the stepping-stone to others, larger and”
“I think we all want to find the love of our life and live our fantasies. What art student hasn't used his art to get girls? What journalists or actors haven't used their craft as well? It's a very human instinct to pursue.”
“When the mind is most empty It is most full.”

Source : Susan Fromberg Schaeffer (1974). “Granite Lady: Poems”, MacMillan Publishing Company

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