Nat Hentoff Quotes
Counting the ones I've co-edited, I guess about 28 or 29 books I've written.
Nat Hentoff
Quotes to Explore
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My upbringing made me think that real legitimate music is written, not heard.
Dan Fogelberg
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There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.
Oscar Wilde
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In old days books were written by men of letters and read by the public. Nowadays books are written by the public and read by nobody.
Oscar Wilde
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I've still not written as well as I want to. I want to write so that the reader in Des Moines, Iowa, in Kowloon, China, in Cape Town, South Africa, can say, 'You know, that's the truth. I wasn't there, and I wasn't a six-foot black girl, but that's the truth.'
Maya Angelou
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The inspiration to write? Perhaps it's not so much inspiration, as a NEED to write. I get itchy and guilty and dissatisfied when I haven't written for a while. Ideas come to me and need to be written down.
Eric Brown
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I love writing. I've always written journals. I loved writing the book on living alone.
Barbara Feldon
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I think the reason for my fascination with craft is what it represents, what it means in our culture, what it means in our history and in humanity. It was the idea that you could go to your butcher to get something, you could go to your tailor to get this, and you could go to your cobbler to get that.
Waris Ahluwalia
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I have always believed that freedom of information is so vital that only the national security, not the desire of public officials or private citizens, should determine when it must be restricted.
Lyndon B. Johnson
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I've been running from, and toward, death all my life, more aware of it than a person should be.
Ridley Pearson
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I lay it down as a general rule, Harriet, that if a woman doubts as to whether she should accept a man or not, she certainly ought to refuse him.
Jane Austen
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Counting the ones I've co-edited, I guess about 28 or 29 books I've written.
Nat Hentoff