Frederic Tuten quotes
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“Aurelie Sheehan's absorbing stories have depth miles beneath their compelling surface. They radiate a wisdom, beauty and originality rare in contemporary fiction.”
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“Someone once told me years ago that there was nothing so dead as a warmed-over love affair.”
-- Frederic TutenSource : Source: www.guernicamag.com
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“I think we all recognize that one of the problems in American culture is that increasingly, there's no middle ground. That either you're a celebrity writer or a celebrity poet, or else you're nothing.”
-- Frederic TutenSource : Source: www.guernicamag.com
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“When you are out of favor, so to speak, it's not just the reviewers. It's the editors, the publishers, they don't want you anymore, you're just gone and you've been written out of history as effectively as the old Stalinists would write someone else out, take their photograph out of a book.”
-- Frederic TutenSource : Source: www.guernicamag.com
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“Whether one becomes famous or not, you have to be reminded of people like Melville, who for the last thirty years of his life was completely unknown. He worked in a customs house and walked off to work as an anonymous person in this American culture.”
-- Frederic TutenSource : Source: www.guernicamag.com
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“If you're not happy, if you're not Emmersonianly happy and think everything's going to get better, then you're just sort of a dark animal.”
-- Frederic TutenSource : Source: www.guernicamag.com
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“Someone said, in a simplistic way maybe, that all American poetry is either cooked or raw, and if it's cooked, it comes from Poe.”
-- Frederic TutenSource : Source: www.guernicamag.com
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Source : Address at the Leadership and Diversity Conference Gatineau, Quebec, Canada, www.akdn.org. May 19, 2004.
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“An author who sets his reader on sounding the depths of his own thoughts serves him best.”
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“The more one endeavors to sound the depths of his ignorance the deeper the chasm appears.”
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“Don't look for "depth" but instead search for subject aspects which prove the presence of depth.”
Source : Andreas Feininger (1982). “Total photography”, Not Avail
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“The swells were amazing! As big as three-story apartment buildings!”
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