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«Writing is the most demanding of callings, more harrowing than a warrior's, more lonely than a whaling captain's-that, in essence, is the modern writer's message.»
Author: Melvin Maddocks
| About:
Writing
| Keywords:
callings, captain, demanding, harrow, harrowed, harrowing, harrows, in essence, message, The Harrow, warrior, whales, whaling
«Journalists do not like to report on uncertainties. They would almost rather be wrong than ambiguous.»
«Cary Grant, born Archie Leach, was a poor boy who could barely spell posh. That's acting for you-or maybe Hollywood.»
Author: Melvin Maddocks
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Actors and acting
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archie, barely, Cary, Cary Grant, leach, leaches, poor boy, posh
«Watching baseball under the lights is like observing dogs indoors, at a pedigree show. In both instances, the environment is too controlled to suit the species.»
Author: Melvin Maddocks
| About:
Baseball
| Keywords:
controlled, indoors, instances, observing, pedigree, pedigrees
«It is beyond the imagination of the menu-maker that there are people in the world who breakfast on a single egg.»
«Giving jazz the Congressional seal of approval is a little like making Huck Finn an honorary Boy Scout.»
Author: Melvin Maddocks
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approval, boy scout, Boy Scouts, congressional, Finn, honorary, huck, Huck Finn, scout, seal, Seal of, seal of approval
«Nothing is more idealistic than a journalist on the defensive.»
«To choose art means to turn one's back on the world, or at least on certain of its distractions.»
«A man's work is his dilemma: his job is his bondage, but it also gives him a fair share of his identity and keeps him from being a bystander in somebody else's world.»
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