One writes to make a home for oneself, on paper, in time and in others' minds.
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is place my pen against paper
and your love
writes for me.
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ALFRED KAZIN A classic is a book that survives the circumstances that made it possible yet alone keeps those circ...
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Seven hundred years and fifty-three
Had Rome been growing up...
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--ALFRED MARSHALL This award is meaningful because it comes from my fellow dealers in celluloid.
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With vassals and serfs at my side,
And of all who assem...
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ALFRED SLOAN There has to be this pioneer, the individual who has the courage, the ambition to overcome the obsta...
ALFRED SLOAN Some have an idea that the reason we in this country discard things so readily is because we have so...
ALFRED SLOAN If we are all in agreement on the decision - then I propose we postpone further discussion of this m...
ALFRED SLOAN The animation of the canvas is one of the hardest problems of painting.
ALFRED SISLEY I like all those painters who loved and had a strong feeling for nature.
ALFRED SISLEY Every picture shows a spot with which the artist has fallen in love.
ALFRED SISLEY Our family lived in Vienna, Austria. after the war and apart from an accordion, there was no other m...
ALFRED SCHNITTKE I would wake up in Moscow or somewhere else, my heart beating fast, feeling bitter and helpless.
ALFRED SCHNITTKE