#den

Early on, New York already had a national and even international identity. ↗

— Ron Chernow

#early #even #had #identity #international

There is a kind of fear, approaching a panic, that's spreading through the Baby Boom Generation, which has suddenly discovered that it will have to provide for its own retirement. ↗

— Ron Chernow

#baby #boom #discovered #fear #generation

If there is to be any hope of prosperity for this country it is by reversing that policy which made us simply the kitchen garden for supplying the British with cheap food. ↗

— Eamon de Valera

#british #cheap #country #food #garden

Never seem more learned than the people you are with. Wear your learning like a pocket watch and keep it hidden. Do not pull it out to count the hours, but give the time when you are asked. ↗

— Lord Chesterfield

#count #give #hidden #hours #keep

The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#garden #heaven #human #human life #life

Faulkner turned out to be a great teacher. When a student asked a question ineptly, he answered the question with what the student had really wanted to know. ↗

— Leslie Fiedler

#asked #faulkner #great #had #know

Hemingway seems to be in a funny position. People nowadays can't identify with him closely as a member of their own generation, and he isn't yet historical. ↗

— Leslie Fiedler

#funny #generation #hemingway #him #historical

I've had a tough time with Pynchon. I liked him very much when I first read him. I liked him less with each book. He got denser and more complex in a way that didn't really pay off. ↗

— Leslie Fiedler

#complex #denser #each #first #got

None speak of the bravery, the might, or the intellect of Jesus; but the devil is always imagined as a being of acute intellect, political cunning, and the fiercest courage. These universal and instinctive tendencies of the human mind reveal much. ↗

— Lydia M. Child

#always #being #bravery #courage #cunning

Sometimes I'll come up with a lick that I really love, and I'll try to put the right words to it for years. Suddenly something comes to me that works just right. ↗

— Alex Chilton

#comes #i #just #lick #love