"When a writer talks about his work, he's talking about a love affair."

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Alfred Kazin

#Talking Quotes #Affair Quotes #Love Affair Quotes

“A work of art is one of mystery, the one extreme magic; everything else is either arithmetic or biology.”
“I played some Yamaha drums that I like a lot. And I like the Yamaha people a lot too. They've been really nice to me and The Band.”
“Time is the best preserver of righteous men.”

Source : "The Odes and Selected Fragments" by Pindar. Fragment 159; p. 387, 1997.
“Silence was the cure, if only temporarily, silence and geography. But of what was I being cured? I do not know, have never known. I only know the cure. Silence, and no connections except to landscape.”

Source : Mary Cantwell (1995). “Manhattan, When I Was Young”, p.89, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“When I fall in love, I don't know why I fall in love, I just know that I am in love.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“The uneasy ghost of Marx must suffer the torments of the damned at the truth glaring from the pages of history that one does not abolish property by transferring it to the state.”
“To the leaders of the cinema still to come, I can offer only a few words drawn from my modest experience. You must ceaselessly formulate and sharpen your critical views, both of others and of yourselves.”
“The United Nations has become a largely irrelevant, if not positively destructive institution, and the just-released U.N. report on the atrocities in Darfur, Sudan, proves the point.”

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