"If the history of the American sentence were a John Ford movie, its second act would conclude with the young Ernest Hemingway walking into a saloon, finding an etiolated Henry James slumped at the bar in a haze of indecision, and shooting him dead."

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Source : "How To Write a (Good) Sentence" by Adam Haslett, www.slate.com. January 23, 2011.

Adam Haslett

#Bars Quotes #Shooting Quotes #Indecision Quotes

“I'm interested in history because it's a discipline that requires a lot of effort from the imagination. You need to put in a lot of imaginative effort to figure out how people lived in an era that is not yours. And in that understanding of people from a different era, I feel, is an important gateway into humanity. Because you understand human behavior. In order to understand humanity, history is important.”
“In spite of their obvious differences, folk art and popular art have much in common; they are easy to understand, they are romantic, patriotic, conventionally moral, and they are held in deep affection by those who are suspicious of the great arts. Popular artists can be serious, like Frederick Remington, or trivial, like Charles Dana Gibson; they can be men of genius like Chaplin or men of talent like Harold Lloyd; they can be as uni versal as Dickens or as parochial as E.P. Roe; one thing common to all of them is the power to communicate directly with everyone.”
“I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.”
“However we may conceal our passions under the veil ... there is always some place where they peep out.”
“Going into that race I was going for the world record, just quietly, but I wasn't feeling at my best all week so it was hard to determine what would happen. I could not believe it, I went into shock, I'm still in shock.”
“If you've ever seen the film In Which We Serve, but it was about a destroyer in the Mediterranean.”
“Facts cling to photographs like dust.”

Source : Andy Grundberg (1990). “Crisis of the real: writings on photography, 1974-1989”
“I have seen faith rise 'mountain high' when the truth of God's present love and compassion begins to dawn upon the minds and hearts of the people. It is not what God can do, but what we know He yearns to do, that inspires faith.”

Source : F. F. Bosworth (2001). “Christ the Healer”, p.74, Chosen Books

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