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I liked reading and working out my ideas in the midst of that endless crowd walking in and out of the (library) looking for something. I, too, was seeking fame and fortune by sitting at the end of a long golden table next to the sets of American authors on the open shelves (Alfred Kazin Quotes)
Altogether beautiful in the power of its feeling. As beautiful as anything in Thoreau or Hemingway (Alfred Kazin Quotes)
If we practiced medicine like we practice education, we’d look for the liver on the right side and left side in alternate years. (Alfred Kazin Quotes)
When a writer talks about his work, he’s talking about a love affair (Alfred Kazin Quotes)
To have a sense of history one must consider oneself a piece of history (Alfred Kazin Quotes)
Only power can get people into a position where they may be noble (Alfred Kazin Quotes)
If we practiced medicine like we practice education, wed look for the liver on the right side and left side in alternate years (Alfred Kazin Quotes)
The writer writes in order to teach himself, to understand himself, to satisfy himself; the publishing of his ideas, though it brings gratification, is a curious anticlimax (Alfred Kazin Quotes)
What need had the businessman to scribble or philosophize when he dominated the imagination of his time and the frantic materialism that was his principle of existence had become the haunting central figure in contemporary life? (Alfred Kazin Quotes)
We never know how much has been missing from our lives until a true writer comes along (Alfred Kazin Quotes)
What happens whenever we convert a writer into a symbol is that we lose the writer himself in all his indefeasible singularity, his particular inimitable genius (Alfred Kazin Quotes)
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 whole (Alfred Kazin Quotes)
A classic is a book that survives the circumstances that made it possible yet alone keeps those circumstances alive (Alfred Kazin Quotes)
In a very real sense, the writer writes in order to teach himself, to understand himself, to satisfy himself; the publishing of his ideas, though it brings gratifications, is a curious anticlimax (Alfred Kazin Quotes)