"The worse the author, the more he is known."

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Source : "James Purdy, a Literary Outsider With a Piercing Vision, Is Dead at 94" by William Grimes, www.nytimes.com. March 13, 2009.

James Purdy

“Are your kids learning the right lessons about 9/11? Ten years after Osama bin Laden's henchmen murdered thousands of innocents on American soil, too many children have been spoon-fed the thin gruel of progressive political correctness over the stiff antidote of truth.”
“No one laughs at God in a hospital,”
“If nominated, I will not run; if elected, I will not serve.”
“We'd find more energy in the attics of American homes (through energy conservation measures) than in all the oil buried in Alaska.”
“A person who longs to leave the place where he lives is an unhappy person.”
“Did somebody dream there is some way that the government doesn't need us?”

Source : "Dwayne’s World" by Dan Carney, www.motherjones.com. July/August 1995.
“I've developed a self-discipline since the time I was a child.”
“The ancient Irish bards knew the Salmon of Knowledge as the giver of all life's wisdom. In the salmon's leap of understanding like a leap of faith, we can see ourselves "in our element," immersed in the river of life. The cycle of the salmon's journey reminds us that all rivers flow to the same sea.”

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