We go to literature because it shows us some set of humane values. It is showing us how … - Matthew Specktor

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What, start at this! when sixty years have spread. Their grey experience o'er thy hoary head? Is this the all observing age could gain? Or hast thou known the world so long in vain?

Matthew Specktor

We go to literature because it shows us some set of humane values. It is showing us how to live.

Humane, Literature, Live, Showing, Shows

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There's a kind of perverseness or betrayal in that idea that art is somehow superior to life. Or that it's more important to write well than it is to take out the garbage.

Art, Betrayal, Kind, Take, Write, Writing

I thought, writing is everything, it's so much more important than this or that. If only I could give that young man a stern talking to. Having a child changes things quite a bit.

Child, Children, Give, Having, Men, Writing

I think writers can gain a lot of vitality from being misread.

Gain, Gains, Think, Thinking, Vitality, Writers

Hollywood is famous for breeding monsters, and having worked in the business, I've known a lot of them. But only intermittently have I ever found them monstrous. They have many other qualities.

Breeding, Business, Famous, Hollywood, Monstrous, Quality

A Good Soldier is one of my favorite novels, for various reasons. But the class question is a good one, because it's not always easy to empathize with privileged people.

Empathize, Good, My Favorite, People, Soldier

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What, start at this! when sixty years have spread. Their grey experience o'er thy hoary head? Is this the all observing age could gain? Or hast thou known the world so long in vain?

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James Wolcott

I've always stayed on the periphery of things. When I used to go to the punk clubs and things like that, I was never up front. I always wanted to be in the back, or on the side, because I wanted to get the whole view, rather than be staring up at someone's nostrils.

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Gerald Celente

Remember Motown? Not just the driving music that swept the nation and the world, but the vibrant energy of the Motor City itself, symbolizing the heyday of America. Today, a derelict Detroit is testament to what America has squandered and what it has become.

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Right knows no boundaries, and justice no frontiers; the brotherhood of man is not a domestic institution.

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Judd Apatow

I feel like Superbad and Freaks And Geeks are somewhat timeless. That's always gratifying, when you feel like 30 years in the future, people will still get it, and it won't seem creaky. It won't come across like The Incredible Mr. Limpet.

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