Morley Callaghan Quotes
I had my success too soon. Three books published with Scribners in New York before I was 30.
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The New York Times Bestseller 'The Amateur,' written by Ed Klein, former editor of the 'New York Times Magazine,' is one of the best books I've read.
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I developed a mania for Fitzgerald - by the time I'd graduated from high school I'd read everything he'd written. I started with 'The Great Gatsby' and moved on to 'Tender Is the Night,' which just swept me away. Then I read 'This Side of Paradise,' his novel about Princeton - I literally slept with that book under my pillow for two years.
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The first thing my writing ever earned me wasn't an advance on a book; it wasn't a fee for an article or anything like that. It was, in fact, a residency at Hedgebrook Farm.
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People are really talkative in New York. Someone always comes up to me and says 'Hi' during the day.
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My mother witnessed the martyrdom of her husband, Hajj Malik Shabazz, Malcolm X, on Sunday, February 21, 1965, at the Audubon Ballroom in New York City. My older sisters, Attallah, Qubilah and I were seated with our mother up front and stage right.
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I had an unhealthy obsession with 'Only Fools and Horses.' I still have to watch an episode with my brother every two or three weeks.
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I think that whenever a book is not a challenge, I'm telling the wrong story.
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Chinatown is tremendously interesting... It's a part of the city that hasn't really been explored in crime literature or in any general literature. It's as though Chinatown didn't exist. People write about New York without mentioning Chinatown at all.
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I liked 'Diff'rent Strokes' up until about the last three or four years. I was bored.
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I have some great stories and I will get around to writing a book.
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Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze. But the book cannot be understood unless one first learns to comprehend the language and read the letters in which it is composed.
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There are three things that make a person a writer: inspiration, perspiration and desperation.
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Three thousand, it's just a number. It's just a game.
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It's interesting that the book publishing industry, on the iPad, has much more flexibility than the music industry had.
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I go to New York to see live shows, not movies.
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The most important thing about Spaceship Earth - an instruction book didn't come with it.
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Conspiracies do exist. Probably in this moment in New York there is an economic group making a conspiracy in order to buy three banks. But if they succeed, they are immediately discovered.
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When I was 18, I drove from New York to California to be a movie star. Not an actor, mind you, but a movie star. Have you ever heard of anything so silly?
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Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self.
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I have a tendency to sometimes get a little serious when I'm working, and it's impossible to do around her. I think she's an extraordinary actor and she kind of almost betrays that sometimes because she's got all this energy.
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I know I'm a Son of God, an heir of God, and a joint heir of Christ. I'm seated with him in the heavenlies, but by choice; like Paul, Peter and others, I've chosen to be a slave.
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I don't only long for the thrill of being in the middle of a war, I must understand it; I must make other people understand.
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Maybe I couldn't be dafter, But I keep wondering if this time we settle our differences before a war instead of after.
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I had my success too soon. Three books published with Scribners in New York before I was 30.
