Madison Smartt Bell In ‘For Whom the Bell Tolls,’ Hemingway cozies up to revolution by romanticizing it (and not only with those execrable love scenes). – Madison Smartt Bell Bell Quotes Cozies Quotes Execrable Quotes Hemingway Quotes Love Quotes Revolution Quotes Romanticizing Quotes Scenes Quotes Tolls Quotes I had been an abject fan of Robert Stone since the early eighties, when I borrowed a copy of ‘A Flag for Sunrise’ to read on a plane to Rome. I was twenty-something, with a first novel under my belt. Hemingway’s minimalism is based on the psychological mechanics of repression. An echo of his approach can be detected in a favorite trope of 1980s minimalists: a pattern of reference to dire secrets and hidden wounds these authors didn’t realize they were supposed to have imagined.
HappinessRobert Green Ingersoll Happiness is not a reward – it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment – it is a result. – Robert Green Ingersoll
BusinessWilliam Wordsworth When from our better selves we have too long been parted by the hurrying world, and droop. Sick of its business, of its pleasures tired, how gracious, how benign is solitude. – William Wordsworth
Emil Ferris Monsters are a departure from ‘reality’ in a way that allows for a range of fantastic possibilities. I mean this within the world of literature as well as in regards to art. When I sit down to draw, I’m energized by the possibility of creating a monster. That is where I find beauty and pathos. – Emil Ferris
Charity Sunshine Tillemann-Dick Whether by a Mack truck or by heart failure or faulty lungs, death happens. But life isn’t really just about avoiding death, is it? It’s about living. – Charity Sunshine Tillemann-Dick
Bobby Vinton I did have a big following in the upper New York area. I was at the New York State Fair a few times over the years. I have areas that I say are my areas. – Bobby Vinton
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