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Adam Morris
"With My Dog-Eyes by Hilda Hilst got more exposure and reached far more readers than I ever expected. Even my editor at Melville House, who championed the project form the outset, told me she was surprised by the response. After this, editors began asking my opinion about which Latin American writers ought to be translated. I realized I had some cultural capital to spend, and I wanted to use it to introduce another author who might be considered a risk by conventional publishers. Michael Noll was at the top of my list." --
Source : Source: therumpus.net
Adam Morris
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“It is essential that the sufferings of Jews become worse this will assist in realization of our plans I have an excellent idea I shall induce anti-Semites to liquidate Jewish wealth The anti-Semites will assist us thereby in that they will strengthen the persecution and oppression of Jews. The anti-Semites shall be our best friends”
“When you're on the road, you sort of go crazy and being away from your family you get stir-crazy and lonely, so I try to keep myself involved as much as possible.”
“Asking who's the 'man' and who's the 'woman' in a same-sex relationship is like asking which chopstick is the fork.”
“I don't do any research. It's all about gut. Editing - it's always about gut.”
“An athlete cannot run with money in his pockets. He must run with hope in his heart and dreams in his head.”
Source : Quoted by Christopher Brasher in the Observer,12 Sep 1982.
“Opportunity comes to pass-not to pause.”
“It is easy to suppose that few people realize on that occasion, which comes to all of us, when we look at the blue sky for the first time, that is to say: not merely see it, but look at it and experience it and for the first time have a sense that we live in the center of a physical poetry, a geography that would be intolerable except for the non-geography that exists there - few people realize that they are looking at the world of their own thoughts and the world of their own feelings.”
“Parenting classes should be mandatory, whether you are adopting or not, and would include an evaluation of your current physical, mental and financial state as well as how ready you are to take on the rigors of parenthood. Our children are our most precious natural resource, and there is absolutely no other way to parent but to put them first.”
Source : "Not Everyone Deserves to Have Children" by Dale Archer, www.foxnews.com. April 15, 2010.
