"The rose goes in the front big guy"

-- Crash Davis

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“The worse the author, the more he is known.”

Source : "James Purdy, a Literary Outsider With a Piercing Vision, Is Dead at 94" by William Grimes, www.nytimes.com. March 13, 2009.
“Angels in America' - which is composed of two three-hour plays, 'Millennium Approaches' and 'Perestroika' - proved to be a watershed drama, the most lyrical and ambitious augury of an era since Tennessee Williams's 'The Glass Menagerie.”
“The race will find that capitalists and communists modify themselves so much during the ages that they end by being indistinguishable as democrats...”
“Art Is a Way Out. Do not let life overwhelm you. When the old paths are choked with the dÃ©bris of failure, look for newer and fresher paths. Art is just such a path. Art is distilled from suffering.”

Source : Nathanael West, Jonathan Lethem (2009). “Miss Lonelyhearts: & the Day of the Locust”, p.4, New Directions Publishing
“Kafka was a complex character in a complex historical era. In order to understand him, you have to do more than cite facts. It is necessary to connect the facts in a meaningful way. His relationship to Judaism, to his father, to women, to literature - all of this is interconnected; and there are decisive moments in his life, in which such interactions suddenly become visible and can be experienced in an almost sensuous manner. It is these moments above all that I try to narrate dramatically.”
“Where you live in the world should not determine whether you live in the world.”
“A coach has to worry not so much about creating motivation, esprit de corps, as about destroying it. The true competitor has it; he wouldn't be a star if he didn't. So you have to mold all these egos together and make sure in your selection of people that you don't destroy the feeling of togetherness or morale, because it is a fragile thing.”
“Obliging elected Democrats willingly pander to the radical lefties who elevated them to their throne.”

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