John Fuller quotes

“100,000,000 Guinea Pigs sparked a rising wave of consumer indignation. But...it takes a major catastrophe to carry legal and enforcement action over the hump of lethargy and inaction....Today, nearly forty years later, the situation is worse, not better.”
-- John Fuller

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“Poetry surprises us with what we already know.”
-- John Fuller

Source : John Fuller (2011). “Who Is Ozymandias?: And other Puzzles in Poetry”, p.12, Random House

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“It is the unspecified 'you' of modern love poems that I am mostly concerned with here. At least, the addressee is commonly a lover, and the very fact that the name is withheld is offered as a guarantee of the closeness and significance of the relationship.”
-- John Fuller

Source : John Fuller (2011). “Who Is Ozymandias?: And other Puzzles in Poetry”, p.194, Random House

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“God’s jewels are often sent us in rough packages and by dark liveried servants, but within we find the very treasures of the King’s palace and the Bridegroom’s Love.”

“I'm not sure how to describe my style. A lot of my work is dark and looks a bit sad, which is strange because I'm such a smiley, over-the-top positive guy who wears gold shoes most days.”

“Death to a good man is but passing through a dark entry, out of one little dusky room of his Father's house into another that is fair and large, lightsome and glorious, and divinely entertaining.”

Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 178, 1895.

“But I will place this carefully fed pig Within the crackling oven; and, I pray, What nicer dish can e'er be given to man.”

“I take anything other than 'you big pig!' as a compliment.”

“The best days I have are usually days where I'm out in the woods and something happens, like I see an amazing animal like a fox, or I get a glimpse of a wild pig or something that I never see. Or crazy things happen.”

“Now, of my threescore years and ten, Twenty will not come again.”

“One of the penalties of being president of the United States is that you must subsist for four years without drinking anything except Californian wine.”

Source : Christopher Morley (1920). “Hide and Seek”

“If you imagine writing 1,000 words a day, which most journalists do, that would be a very long book a year.”

“Dear Mr. and Mrs. Obama, Thank you for sending me Christmas and New Year greetings yet again. Welcome back to India... Would have loved to host you at my concert in Baroda on the 26th!”