"As always, I wonder if I'll get through the winter. Then when winter is over, I wonder about the summer. But that's because the system decided which author shall be commercially successful. As I said, the most vicious of them all is The New York Times, because it pretends to be literary and impartial, and it's really this opinionated, myopic, stupid giant of incompetence."

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James Purdy

#Summer Quotes #New York Quotes #Stupid Quotes

“I'm back into fashion which is great! Because they do all the terrible work of production for me.”

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“I want to give the audience a hint of a scene. No more than that. Give them too much and they won't contribute anything themselves. Give them just a suggestion and you get them working with you. That's what gives the theater meaning: when it becomes a social act.”
“Those people upstairs think that Karl Marx was somebody who wrote a good anti-trust law.”
“Daren Hardy's The Compound Effect is a culmination of success principles that is relevant to anyone who needs it! As a thought leader, he is making a significant contribution to our industry. A wonderful book!”
“The place was a familiar as breath but as far from his life now as the moon.”
“I may have implied on several occasions to several different people that I may have been Jesus Christ, but I haven't decided yet what I am or who I am.”

Source : Vincent Bugliosi, Curt Gentry (1977). “Helter skelter: an investigation into motive”
“The motion of the mind is conveyed along a cloud of meaning.~ There is this paradox that we get to meaning only when we strip the meaning from symbols.”
“In August, the large masses of berries, which, when in flower, had attracted many wild bees, gradually assumed their bright velvety crimson hue, and by their weight again bent down and broke their tender limbs.”

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