Barney Rosset quotes
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“Opens up a whole new view of Beckett. The strong mutual attraction between Beckett and Cunard may help explain the leftist political views he expressed both in these superb and long-neglected translations for Negro and elsewhere in his work.”
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“If you have freedom of speech, you have freedom of speech,”
-- Barney RossetSource : "For Publisher Barney Rosset, Risk Has Its Rewards". Interview with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. November 21, 2008.
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“Waiting for Godot was not allowed. Neither was Henry Miller. The Soviets condemned them both. Miller would have been used as an example of decadence, being a very good analyst of how terrible and monstrous American culture was. That they liked, but they wouldn't publish him. I guess it must have been the sex. With Beckett, it must have been the hopelessness.”
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“We thought a magazine, even a self proclaimed literary review, had to be involved in politics. We felt sex was healthy and made (then) bold use of fiction and graphics so declaring. We operated on a shoestring and still got our issues out on time. In short, we had a ball.”
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Source : A. Bartlett Giamatti (1981). “The University and the Public Interest”, Atheneum Books
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“I take a grave view of the press. It is the weak slat under the bed of democracy”
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Source : Abdallah II's Speech at the Mideast summit in Aqaba, Jordan, edition.cnn.com. June 4, 2003.
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Source : A. A. Gill (2008). “Paper view: the best of the Sunday Times television reviews”, Orion Pub Co
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Source : A. S. A. Harrison (2013). “The Silent Wife: A Novel”, p.96, Penguin
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