Stephen Metcalf quotes
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“Any method by which you get to see things that you haven't seen before hones your practiced ability to make connections.”
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“I hit adolescence only to discover my autobiography had already been written; plagiarized, in fact, by a man named J.D. Salinger who, in appropriating to himself my inner mass of pain and confusion, had given me the unlikely name of Holden Caulfield.”
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“Art is often confused with the skill of drawing. It is the skill of making.”
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“The beauty of design ought to be totally incidental to the enterprise itself.”
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“Dark, subtle, complex, wicked - if only Hollywood movies were half as interesting as Hollywood accounting.”
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“You know it's right when you feel this undeniable connection and chemistry.”
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“The English have an extraordinary ability for flying into a great calm.”
Source : Address in Reply to His Majesty's Most Gracious Speech, hansard.millbanksystems.com. November 01, 1950.
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