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I was in college for two years, and just hated it in the '60s. ↗

— Kurt Loder

#hated #i #just #two #years

Rewriting is a large part of the whole job. And get rid of stuff that's not working. Just pare it down until it's a beautiful thing you can hand in, probably late, to your editor. ↗

— Kurt Loder

#beautiful thing #down #editor #get #hand

Some of the most important stories don't lend themselves to television treatment. ↗

— Kurt Loder

#lend #most #some #stories #television

Unless you're doing a feature piece, which is going to be longer, and you have more time to get into stuff. ↗

— Kurt Loder

#feature #get #going #into #longer

Well, in features, and in writing especially, it's often the style of the writer comes in. ↗

— Kurt Loder

#especially #features #often #style #well

Well, news is anything that's interesting, that relates to what's happening in the world, what's happening in areas of the culture that would be of interest to your audience. ↗

— Kurt Loder

#areas #audience #culture #happening #interest

Literature is mostly about having sex and not much about having children. Life is the other way round. ↗

— David Lodge

#children #having #having children #life #literature

Universities are the cathedrals of the modern age. They shouldn't have to justify their existence by utilitarian criteria. ↗

— David Lodge

#cathedrals #criteria #existence #justify #modern

Beware how you trifle with your marvelous inheritance, this great land of ordered liberty, for if we stumble and fall, freedom and civilization everywhere will go down in ruin. ↗

— Henry Cabot Lodge

#civilization #down #everywhere #fall #freedom

We would not have our country's vigour exhausted or her moral force abated, by everlasting meddling and muddling in every quarrel, great and small, which afflicts the world. ↗

— Henry Cabot Lodge

#country #everlasting #every #exhausted #force