"You learn nothing if you carry with you a journalistic system of values, which is invented to save reporters from experience."

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Source : Kenneth Rexroth (1969). “An autobiographical novel”

Kenneth Rexroth

“All the real things in Russia are done in the villages.”
“It's not whether you won or lost, but how many bad-beat stories you were able to tell.”
“In these days of conflict between ancient and modern studies, there must surely be something to be said for a study which did not begin with Pythagoras, and will not end with Einstein, but is the oldest and the youngest of all.”
“You have to be able to love yourself because that's when things fall into place.”
“Thought precedes action, action does not always precede thought.”
“The arts of peace and the arts of war are like two wheels of a cart which, lacking one, will have difficulty in standing.”
“Fairy tales lie just as much as statistics do, but sometimes you can find a grain of truth in them.”
“I want my voice to be consistent no matter if it's an original or a translation.”

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