"The novelist now usurps the chair of the educator, the pulpit of the preacher, the columns of the journalist. Yet his original purpose of entertaining may have been his highest purpose. (introduction to Gladiator, Book League Monthly, 1930)"

-- Philip Wylie

#Book Quotes #League Quotes #Novelists Quotes

“I think that the important thing to know is, which is great about this country [the USA], when it comes to domestic issues, we all battle it out and fight it between the parties and all those kind of things to get things done, but when it comes to foreign issues, overseas kind of things, then we all speak with one voice.”
“I grew up as a country boy.”
“My life isn't much different than when I worked full time as a journalist.”
“Obama gets his identity and his ideology from his father.”
“Jazz is democracy in music.”
“I've been very fortunate - You only can do what you're offered, you know?”
“A land ethic for tomorrow should...stress the oneness of our resources and the live-and-help-live logic of the great chain of life.”

Source : Stewart L. Udall (1963). “The Quiet Crisis”
“The Vogels were quite strict in what they acquired. They never acquired a projection. They never acquired a sound piece. They were never big on photos that much, unless it was photos documenting something. They had some limitations into what they bought.”

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