Joseph Kanon quotes

“You know the sultans used to light their garden parties with turtles? They'd put candles on their backs and let them wander around. Hundreds of them.”
-- Joseph Kanon

Source : Joseph Kanon (2012). “Istanbul Passage: A grippping historical thriller from the author of Leaving Berlin”, p.160, Simon and Schuster

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“Being an editor doesn't make you a better writer - or vice versa. The worst thing any editor can do is be in competition with his writer.”
-- Joseph Kanon

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“I think most writers' houses are disappointing. What's much more atmospheric and interesting are the places they wrote about.”
-- Joseph Kanon

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“At graduation, I assumed I'd be in publishing, but first I went to England and got a master's degree in English Literature. And then I came back to New York and had a series of publishing jobs, the way one does.”
-- Joseph Kanon

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“When you're editing, you want to be the perfect appreciator, not another writer.”
-- Joseph Kanon

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“Venice was always one step removed from what was going on. If you were in Turin or in Milan or one of the industrial centers, you would have had a much more active political constituency. Venice essentially lived for itself.”
-- Joseph Kanon

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“I have talked with representatives from the two other parties who said they had no problem with the offer either.”

Source : "Thai opposition views new election" by Ram Ramgopal, edition.cnn.com. April 4, 2006.

“I just consider myself a piece of the puzzle and I'm lucky enough to be asked or invited to the party, if you will. I hope I can bring some laughs and grimaces to the fans.”

“I’d rather be a straight ‘self-proclaimed homosexual’ than a racist, ignorant, hate-filled bigot in Rise Up Australia any day. This party wants to end multiculturalism and discriminate against anyone different. What this mob intends as a grievous insult, I take as a compliment. Long live equal rights.”

“There are as many attitudes to cooking as there are people cooking, of course, but I do think that cooking guys tend - I am a guilty party here - to take, or get, undue credit for domestic virtue, when in truth cooking is the most painless and, in its ways, ostentatious of the domestic chores.”

“The main difference between the Prague Spring and the Velvet Revolution was that the former was mostly the work of Communist party members and others who wanted to bring about socialism with a human face.”

“I never had any other desire so strong, and so like covetousness, as that ... I might be master at last of a small house and a large garden, with very moderate conveniences joined to them, and there dedicate the remainder of my life to the culture of them and the study of nature.”

Source : Abraham Cowley, Samuel Johnson (1822). “The Poems of Abraham Cowley”, p.152

“I see little hope for a nation that values the health of its livestock more than that of its people....Farmers are not criticized for routinely giving their (live)stock nutritional supplements....superior to any sold for humans...Millions of families could plant home gardens if they truly wanted health. Refined food are practically unknown in Russia. The life expectancy of the 40-year-old American is near the lowest in the world.”

“It is not the gardener that makes the garden. It is the garden that makes the gardener.”

“Happiness is attained, not through self-interest, but through unconditional fidelity in endless love of eternal light.”

“The purely righteous do not complain of the dark, but increase the light; they do not complain of evil, but increase justice; they do not complain of heresy, but increase faith; they do not complain of ignorance, but increase wisdom.”