"You're...writing for other writers to an extent-the dead writers whose work you admire, as well as the living writers you like to read."

-- Raymond Carver

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“Socrates affirmed that only that which the reader already knows can be sparked by a reading, and that the knowledge cannot be acquired through dead letters.”
“Some people say "if we split up,we can cover more ground"-with blood”
“The sooner you learn it's on you to make life interesting, the better off you'll be.”
“I came to the conclusion that in comedy, everybody gets what they need, whereas in horror, everybody gets what they deserve. I decided that at the end of the day, I was going to give everybody what they needed.”
“I am primarily concerned with the condition of man,”

Source : Kenneth Wade Prescott, Jack Levine (1978). “Jack Levine: Retrospective Exhibition, Paintings, Drawings, Graphics”
“Oh, it was a disaster, .. It went down like a lead balloon. I don't know why. I had thought the women in the audience deserved a little bit of something else after watching all those beautiful women. But I think they were shocked. Although the guys did dance nicely.”
“I've never been the girl that's had the five-year plan.”

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“If a mathematician wishes to disparage the work of one of his colleagues, say, A, the most effective method he finds for doing this is to ask where the results can be applied. The hard pressed man, with his back against the wall, finally unearths the researches of another mathematician B as the locus of the application of his own results. If next B is plagued with a similar question, he will refer to another mathematician C. After a few steps of this kind we find ourselves referred back to the researches of A, and in this way the chain closes.”

Source : "Semantics and the Philosophy of Language" edited by L. Linsky, Urbana, (p. 41), 1952.

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