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Anger is one way to respond to fear. I say one way because responses are categorically multiple.


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J. Z. KNIGHT It takes a kind of shabby arrogance to survive in our time, and a fairly romantic nature to want to.
EDGAR Z. FRIEDENBERG I've always felt that having a garden is like having a good and loyal friend.
C. Z. GUEST Some nights are made for torture, or reflection, or the savoring of loneliness.
POPPY Z. BRITE New Orleans cuisine is Creole rather than Cajun.
POPPY Z. BRITE All weakness tends to corrupt, and impotence corrupts absolutely.
EDGAR Z. FREIDENBERG My childhood may have been more demented than most, because I learned to read very early and was all...
POPPY Z. BRITE Yeah, I think A Confederacy of Dunces is probably the perfect New Orleans book.
POPPY Z. BRITE What we must decide is perhaps how we are valuable, rather than how valuable we are.
EDGAR Z. FRIEDENBERG The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.
SIGMUND Z. ENGEL In high school I was the dog, always, and I never have felt comfortable or right in my body, and par...
POPPY Z. BRITE This is the point being missed by readers who lament Liquor's lack of hot sex scenes, probably b...
POPPY Z. BRITE In France, for instance, one magazine writer was convinced that On The Road had been a huge influenc...
POPPY Z. BRITE No one has ever done anything too bad to be forgiven
R. Z. SHEPPARD At some point you have to start letting people save their own life.
POPPY Z. BRITE An able practitioner of glitz lit.
R. Z. SHEPPARD Not only do most people accept violence if it is perpetrated by legitimate authority, they also rega...
EDGAR Z. FRIEDENBERG An old man loved is winter with flowers.
EDGAR Z. FRIEDENBERG [Ken] Kesey practices what has come to be known as gonzo journalism. The reporter, often intoxicated...
R. Z. SHEPPARD His reserve of disdain appears endless. He could no sooner shut it off than a vampire could forgo hi...
R. Z. SHEPPARD The 'teenager' seems to have replaced the Communist as the appropriate target for public controversy...
EDGAR Z. FRIEDENBERG The short story is like an old friend who calls whenever he is in town. We are happy to hear from it...
R. Z. SHEPPARD It was like discovering that your innermost fires and terrors, the things you believed no one else c...
POPPY Z. BRITE The San Francisco Bay Area [is] the playpen of countercultures.
R. Z. SHEPPARD And I can't think of a reason I'd ever use a pseudonym, as I wouldn't want to publish so...
POPPY Z. BRITE Let the night come. We are not afraid.
POPPY Z. BRITE The last dying days of summer, fall coming on fast. A cold night, the first of the season, a change ...
POPPY Z. BRITE Much of the story we have told falls outside the boundaries of modern academic disciplines and their...
JERRY Z. MULLER