#Writing Quotes #Mean Quotes #Successful Quotes
“I'm not trying to justify myself, or say I'm not sorry, or not contrite.”
“I have desired to do good, but I have not desired to make noise, because I have felt that noise did no good and that good made no noise.”
“My only conclusion about structure is that nothing works if you don't have interesting characters and a good story to tell.”
“Heaven and hell suppose two distinct species of men, the good and the bad. But the greatest part of mankind float betwixt vice and virtue.”
“The whole idea of play is in finding, acknowledging, and then working with the natural constraints and limitations that you find in the world.”
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“Arnold Rampersad's stunningly revealing biography has, at long last, unveiled-in magisterial prose-the very complex and vulnerable man behind Ralph Ellison's own masks and myths. One of the nation's most brilliant writers emerges as all the more fascinating precisely because he was so very human. Painstakingly researched and compellingly written, Ralph Ellison is a masterwork of the genre of literary biography.”
“The all American work ethic, destructive enough by itself, also packs a gender double standard that strip-mines the natural resources of both parents. It has taught us that as their earnings and success increase, men become "more manly," while women become "less feminine." This perverse cultural dynamic gives fathers an incentive to stay away from their families and kill themselves at work, while coercing mothers to limit their career commitment, which in turn limits their wages and shortchanges their families.”
“I think of the Ramones when I think of music that can save your life, but I'm not so sure about a band like Fall Out Boy who appears to make music in vein or that, at least, doesn't sound like something they would die for.”
