"What if this young woman, who writes such bad poems, in competition with her husband, whose poems are equally bad, should stretch her remarkably long and well-made legs out before you, so that her skirt slips up to the tops of her stockings?"

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Source : Gilbert Sorrentino (1971). “Imaginative Qualities of Actual Things”

Gilbert Sorrentino

#Husband Quotes #Writing Quotes #Long Quotes

“The guys who stick around are the smartest guys and the guys who are the most self-driven. You have to have drive. The coaches can only take you so far. You have to want to learn and work.”
“There is nothing like a parade to elicit the proper respect for the military from the populace.”
“Praise your children openly, reprove them secretly.”
“We are reaching the stage where the problems we must solve are going to become insoluble without computers. I do not fear computers, I fear the lack of them.”
“Think ahead. Don't let day-to-day operations drive out planning.”
“Emerson, I am trying to live, as you said we must, the examined life. But there are days I wish there was less in my head to examine, not to speak of the busy heart.”
“There's never been any game plan or thread through my career. It's just happened that I've ricocheted from one interesting character to another.”
“Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.”

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