Alfred Lansing quotes

“I have a great many opinions about writing, but I'm afraid that all of them are unprintable”
-- Alfred Lansing

Source : Alfred Lansing (2015). “Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage”, p.11, Basic Books

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“No matter what the odds, a man does not pin his last hope for survival on something and then expect that it will fail.”
-- Alfred Lansing

Source : Alfred Lansing (2014). “Endurance”, p.247, Perseus Books Group

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“In that instant they felt an overwhelming sense of pride and accomplishment. Though they had failed dismally even to come close to the expedition's original objective, they knew now that somehow they had done much, much more than ever they set out to do.”
-- Alfred Lansing

Source : Alfred Lansing (2015). “Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage”, p.342, Basic Books

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“it's been my experience that most writers don't talk about their craft--they just do it”
-- Alfred Lansing

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“Almost anyone can be an author; the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being.”

“Because of a friend, life is a little stronger, fuller, more gracious thing for the friend's existence, whether he be near or far. If the friend is close at hand, that is best; but if he is far away he still is there to think of, to wonder about, to hear from, to write to, to share life and experience with, to serve, to honor, to admire, to love.”

“I had casually rented an apartment that cost $75 a month because I expected my writing to pay my way.”

“If the first requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite, the second is to put in your apprenticeship as a feeder when you have enough money to pay the check but not enough to produce indifference of the total.”

“The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite. Without this, it is impossible to accumulate, within the allotted span, enough experience of eating to have anything worth setting down.”

“In my opinion we learn nothing from history except the infinite variety of men's behaviour. We study it, as we listen to music or read poetry, for pleasure, not for instruction”

Source : "The Trouble Makers: Dissent over Foreign Policy, 1792-1939". Book by A. J. P. Taylor, "The Radical Tradition: Fox, Paine, and Cobbett", p 34, 1957.

“A drunk tongue is an honest one in my opinion.”

Source : "Booze helps Adele write songs". www.thesun.co.uk. April 5, 2016.

“As far as I know, I have no pride of opinion.”

“Great men are always of a nature originally melancholy.”

“Roger Scruton is one of our great men of speculation”