"Merely to have survived is not an index of excellence."

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Source : Anthony Hecht (2012). “Collected Earlier Poems”, p.72, Knopf

Anthony Hecht

#Excellence Quotes #Mediocrity Quotes

“In one of his last newsletters, Mike Ranney wrote: "In thinking back on the days of Easy Company, I'm treasuring my remark to a grandson who asked, 'Grandpa, were you a hero in the war?' No,'" I answered, 'but I served in a company of heroes.”
“I wrote a whole novel before The Beach. Unpublishable. Junk. But, for some reason I stuck at novels and wrote a second. Still not sure why I didn't give up. Stubborn, maybe.”
“The more we see the more we must be able to imagine, and the more we imagine, the more we must think we see.”

Source : Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Ellen Frothingham (2013). “Laocoon: An Essay upon the Limits of Painting and Poetry”, p.17, Courier Corporation
“I don't have any illusion that The Creeper is as popular or will ever be as popular as any of the classic movie monsters, but I think in the heart of every young horror fan is his desire to create his own creature.”
“When Tatiana looked up from her ice cream, she saw a soldier staring at her from across the street.”
“I bury my mind in my book, the Bible. Every morning it's the first thing that I do. I've been doing it for years and years. So I want to come back here [to Israel] to see the places that I read about every day. It's very important to my faith to feed [my] spirit in Israel.”
“I find it personally distracting when kids are constantly texting, but they can be texting something that is just benign and just fine.”

Source : "CNN Newsroom", www.cnn.com. March 19, 2013.
“As soon as you think you've got the key to the stock market, they change the lock.”

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