Logan Pearsall Smith Quotes

criticizing the Cambridge School of criticism, e.g. John Middleton Murry and Herbert Read, 'Fine Writing,' pp. 306-307

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• I was probably never going to get to do the kind of things dramatically that I really wanted to do, so I returned to theater from time to time, and to write, and produce. It's by no means sour grapes.

  

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• By the time I was 29 I'd spent eight years with someone else's group of friends. I had no idea what it was like to be a woman with mates of her own to socialize with.

  

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• These 'Sports Illustrated' people, they know how to hold a secret.

  

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• Rarely do we stop and consider whether the most prestigious of institutions is always in our best interest.

  

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• I have big hands. I can't do the touch-screen thing. I'm a button guy. I want to press buttons.

  

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• We are not saints, but we have kept our appointment. How many people can boast as much?

  

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• For very long, I wasn't able to find a place for myself in movies. After my initial success, I didn't know how to capitalise on it.

  

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• The nation is faced with one of the most corporate-orientated anti-consumer Congresses in our history.

  

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• Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.

  

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• I'm not a walking extra in a Chekhov play; I'm no Slavic gloom or Irish gloom.

  

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• It is not my nature, when I see a people borne down by the weight of their shackles - the oppression of tyranny - to make their life more bitter by heaping upon them greater burdens; but rather would I do all in my power to raise the yoke than to add anything that would tend to crush them.

  

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• I write about the trials and triumphs of contemporary life - and often the readers see themselves between the lines of the story.

  

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• In 'The Founders,' his new book about top charter schools, Richard Whitmire traces both the 'revolution' these schools brought about in many American cities as well as a parallel phenomenon, 'the charter pushback campaigns.'

  

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• In all my life, I have never been free. I have never been able to do anything with freedom, except in the field of my writing.

  

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• The one reader I'm trying to please as I write is me, and I'm pretty difficult to please.

  

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• I like it a lot. That just goes to show the rapport we have with the coaches and they trust us enough to do something on our own that we recognize so we can make a play.

  

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• criticizing the Cambridge School of criticism, e.g. John Middleton Murry and Herbert Read, 'Fine Writing,' pp. 306-307

  

  Logan Pearsall Smith
  • Writing
  • School
  • Criticism