"It is wrong to be harsh with the New York critics, unless one admits in the same breath that it is a condition of their existence that they should write entertainingly about something which is rarely worth writing about at all."

-- Raymond Chandler

#New York Quotes #Writing Quotes #Criticism Quotes

“I think I was a feminist before the word was invented.”
“The bottom of the oil barrel is now visible.”

Source : Christopher Flavin (1985). “World Oil: Coping With the Dangers of Success”, Worldwatch Inst
“A man who has been an animal has infinitely more knowledge of that animal than a man who has merely dissected one.”

Source : Jack Sharkey (2018). “Arcturus Times Three”, p.8, Ozymandias Press
“The greatest threat now is a 9/11 occurring with a group of terrorists armed not with airline tickets and box cutters, but with a nuclear weapon in the middle of one of our own cities...there's a high probability of such an attempt.”
“[Some people] put their work on the internet and check every day how many people look, how many people made contact, but I don't have internet, I don't have a hand-phone, I don't have fax, I don't have email. I just have old-fashioned telephone and letters.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“I never, ever would or did rob anyone in my life.”
“Let man then contemplate the whole of nature in her full and grand majesty... No idea approaches it. We may enlarge our conceptions beyond all imaginable space; we only produce atoms in comparison with the reality of things. It is an infinite sphere, the center of which is everywhere, the circumference nowhere.”
“I never let the facts get in the way of the truth!”

Source : Farley Mowat (2015). “Never Cry Wolf”, p.110, Open Road Media

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