Ben Lerner Quotes
The story and the poem are obviously changed by being placed in the novel, so in a sense they're no longer the works that preceded the novel.
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I don't know how much the economy has changed since Jonathan Swift's 'A Modest Proposal.'
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I joined the Actors Studio and began to work with Lee Strasberg, and that changed my work.
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Not everybody goes to movies to get their life changed.
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The novel is a seduction; a reader has to be seduced.
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I've learnt that, even though I've travelled about, I haven't changed that much.
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Love Me Do, the first song we recorded, John was supposed to sing the lead, but they changed their minds and asked me to sing lead because they wanted John to play harmonica.
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The strange thing about writing is that it's so easy to write a novel. It is really easy. But it's getting there to the point where it's easy that's hard. The hard part is to get there.
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The paintings may communicate even better because people are lazy and they can look at a painting with less effort than they can read a poem.
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When I write a novel, every word is mine. I welcome suggestions from my editor, but in the end, I make all the final decisions.
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When starting to think about any novel, part of the motive is: I'm going to show them, this time.
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What is the poem, after it is written? That is the question. Not where it came from or why.
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I do not suppose that anyone not a poet can realize the agony of creating a poem. Every nerve, even every muscle, seems strained to the breaking point. The poem will not be denied; to refuse to write it would be a greater torture. It tears its way out of the brain, splintering and breaking its passage, and leaves that organ in the state of a jelly-fish when the task is done.
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Homer must have felt this pressure to come up with an epic poem that would sound totally new to an audience that had loved his previous best-seller.
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I beg your pardon I didn't recognise you - I've changed a lot.
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The world is changed because you are made of ivory and gold. The curves of your lips rewrite history.
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In every first novel the hero is the author as Christ or Faust.
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[Pablo] Picasso really changed my life. It's strange to say so, but I started to see some Picasso paintings very early. I was very young, and he was not so much known.
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Both Dixie and I told Mr. Rickey we wanted to be traded, ... After just one road trip, I saw the quality of Jackie the man and the player. From that point on, I was one of many guys fighting to sit next to Jackie whenever I had the opportunity. I told Mr. Rickey I had changed my mind and I was honored to be a teammate of Jackie Robinson.
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Rain falls on everyone, lightning strikes some. What cannot be changed is best forgotten. God made the world, and He saw that it was good. Not fair. Not happy. Not perfect. Good.
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There are no better cosmetics than a severe temperance and purity, modesty and humility, a gracious temper and calmness of spirit; and there is no true beauty without the signatures of these graces in the very countenance.
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The deepest depth of vulgarism is that of setting up money as the ark of the covenant.
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Everyone can make their own decisions about what's going on. It's not for players to answer. It's just a tough situation right now.
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The story and the poem are obviously changed by being placed in the novel, so in a sense they're no longer the works that preceded the novel.
