#mer

There are things in American culture that want to wipe the class distinction. Blue jeans. Ready-made clothes. Coca-Cola. ↗

— Leslie Fiedler

#american culture #blue #blue jeans #class #clothes

The formation of the News America Publishing Group will lead to greater editorial excitement, new business opportunities and greater efficiencies and coordination. ↗

— Peter Chernin

#business #business opportunities #coordination #editorial #efficiencies

Cooper wrote a novel which is absolutely indistinguishable from Austen, completely from a female point of view, completely English, no sense that he was an American. ↗

— Leslie Fiedler

#american #austen #completely #cooper #english

Because of the love affair between the American public and the stock market, it is possible for entrepreneurs, technological visionaries and inventors of every sort to get financing. ↗

— Ron Chernow

#american #american public #because #between #entrepreneurs

Once the brokerage house, rather than the bank, became the locus for American savings, that money would find its way into the stock market, because the broker was someone with a much higher tolerance for risk than the banker. ↗

— Ron Chernow

#bank #banker #became #because #broker

I can't play anywhere near like I used to, and I was a hot drummer. It doesn't bother me, because frankly, if you get to that point where you can't hold a drumstick properly, there are many other things in life which are far more important, like cutting a loaf of bread or a piece of cheese. ↗

— Phil Collins

#because #bother #bread #cheese #cutting

Impossibilities are merely things of which we have not learned, or which we do not wish to happen. ↗

— Charles W. Chesnutt

#impossibilities #learned #merely #things #which

Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#ancestors #around #arrogant #classes #dead

I think Henry Miller has had huge influence not because he wrote about sex, but because the memoir or the nonfiction novel has become such a monumental force in American publishing, if not in literature. ↗

— Leslie Fiedler

#american #because #become #force #had

That a majority of women do not wish for any important change in their social and civil condition, merely proves that they are the unreflecting slaves of custom. ↗

— Lydia M. Child

#change #civil #condition #custom #important