"It is one of the paradoxes of American literature that our writers are forever looking back with love and nostalgia at lives they couldn't wait to leave."

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Source : "Scotty: All the News That's Fit to Schmooze". The Weekly Standard, February 24, 2003.

Anatole Broyard

#Waiting Quotes #Forever Quotes #Literature Quotes

“Most child actors were lucky enough to get the part in the first place.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I believe in a passionately strong feeling for the poetry of life - for the beautiful, the mysterious, the romantic, the ecstatic - the loveliness of Nature, the lovability of people, everything that excites us, everything that starts our imagination working, LAUGHTER, gaiety, strength, heroism, love, tenderness, every time we see - however dimly - the godlike that is in everyone and want to kneel in reverence.”

Source : Leopold Stokowski (1943). “Music for all of us”
“Those who turn good organizations into great organizations are motivated by a deep creative urge and an inner compulsion for sheer unadulterated excellence for its own sake.”
“Temperance to be a virtue must be free, and not forced.”
“There is an air of unreality in debating these arcane points when the world is changing in such dramatic ways right in front of our eyes because of global warming.”
“Loneliness doesnâ€™t exist on any single plane of consciousness. Itâ€™s generally a low throb, barely audible, like the hum of a Mercedes engine in park, but every so often the demands of the highway call for a burst of acceleration, and the hum becomes a thunderous, elemental roar, and once again youâ€™re reminded of what this babyâ€™s carrying under the hood.”
“The sight of such a monument is like continual and stationary music which one hears for one's good as one approaches it. [Fr., La vue d'un tel monument est comme une musique continuelle et fixee qui vous attend pour vous faire du bien quand vous vous en approchez.]”
“Celebrity is very weird.”

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