A classic is a book that survives the circumstances that made it possible yet alone keeps those circumstances alive.
The writer writes in order to teach himself, to understand himself, to satisfy himself; the publishing of his ideas, though it brings gratification, … - Alfred Kazin
The writer writes in order to teach himself, to understand himself, to satisfy himself; the publishing of his ideas, though it brings gratification, …
- Alfred Kazin
What happens whenever we convert a writer into a symbol is that we lose the writer himself in all his indefeasible singularity, his particular inimit… - Alfred Kazin
What happens whenever we convert a writer into a symbol is that we lose the writer himself in all his indefeasible singularity, his particular inimit…
A year after Hemingway died on the front page, Faulkner went off after a binge, as if dying was nobody's business but his own. - Alfred Kazin
A year after Hemingway died on the front page, Faulkner went off after a binge, as if dying was nobody's business but his own.
I had to admit that in his old-fashioned way O'Hara was still romantic about sex; like Scott Fitzgerald, he thought of it as an upper-class prerogati… - Alfred Kazin
I had to admit that in his old-fashioned way O'Hara was still romantic about sex; like Scott Fitzgerald, he thought of it as an upper-class prerogati…
History has become more important than ever because of the to unprecedented ability of the historical sciences to take in man's life on earth as a wh… - Alfred Kazin
History has become more important than ever because of the to unprecedented ability of the historical sciences to take in man's life on earth as a wh…
Walking I am unbound, and find that precious unity of life and imagination, that silent outgoing self, which is so easy to loose, but which a high mo… - Alfred Kazin
Walking I am unbound, and find that precious unity of life and imagination, that silent outgoing self, which is so easy to loose, but which a high mo…
Altogether beautiful in the power of its feeling. As beautiful as anything in Thoreau or Hemingway. - Alfred Kazin
Altogether beautiful in the power of its feeling. As beautiful as anything in Thoreau or Hemingway.
Modern American literature was born in protest, born in rebellion, born out of the sense of loss and indirection which was imposed upon the new gener… - Alfred Kazin
Modern American literature was born in protest, born in rebellion, born out of the sense of loss and indirection which was imposed upon the new gener…
We never know how much has been missing from our lives until a true writer comes along. - Alfred Kazin
We never know how much has been missing from our lives until a true writer comes along.
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