We never know how much has been missing from our lives until a true writer comes along.
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…
We never know how much has been missing from our lives until a true writer comes along. - Alfred Kazin
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.
To have a sense of history one must consider oneself a piece of history. - Alfred Kazin
To have a sense of history one must consider oneself a piece of history.
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