"Writing is the thing that props me up."

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Source : "His Kind of Town" by Alex Witchel, www.nytimes.com. August 19, 2007.

Horton Foote

#Writing Quotes #Props Quotes

“He had a stellar talent. I not only lost a contemporary in the death of Robert E. Howard. The world lost a writer of extraordinary gifts.”
“Every blue-stocking will remain a spinster as long as there are sensible men on the earth. [Fr., Toute fille lettree restera fille toute sa vie, quand il n'y aura que des hommes senses sur la terre.]”
“We hear much nowadays as to the speculative ideas of men concerning the condition beyond the grave; but the admission that there is an individual existence beyond the grave, is a declaration that there must have been an individual, intelligent creation before we came here in the flesh. Life beyond the grave postulates a pre-existent state.”
“Cornelius Cardew's folk songs were very, very literal, and they were just about workers smashing their chains. It was like reading Das Kapital over a folk-song melody, and it's a spectacular failure, in my opinion.”

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“BeyoncÃ© is musically why I do what I do. She's an inspiration, she's incredible. I just love her.”
“I admire people who are suited to the contemplative life. They can sit inside themselves like honey in a jar and just be.”
“I should have loved freedom, I believe, at all times, but in the time in which we live I am ready to worship it.”
“A garden is mainly ...a space around which interests can be accumulated.”

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