Christopher Lehmann-Haupt quotes

Christopher Lehmann-Haupt quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“The beginning of a plot is the prompting of desire.”
-- Christopher Lehmann-Haupt

#Writing Quotes #Desire Quotes #Plot Quotes
“There is no medical proof that television causes brain damage - at least from over five feet away. In fact, TV is probably the least physically harmful of all the narcotics known to man.”
-- Christopher Lehmann-Haupt

#Men Quotes #Feet Quotes #Brain Quotes
“Even when you disagree with her, she electrifies your mind.”
-- Christopher Lehmann-Haupt

#Mind Quotes #Disagree Quotes
“In the spirit of Julian Barnes's Flaubert's Parrot and Alain de Botton's How Proust Can Change Your Life, Mr. Dyer's Out of Sheer Rage keeps circling its subject in widening loops and then darting at it when you least expect it . . . a wild book.”
-- Christopher Lehmann-Haupt

#Book Quotes #Spirit Quotes #Proust Quotes
“Mr. Frazier makes me laugh out loud.”
-- Christopher Lehmann-Haupt

#Laughing Quotes #Make Me Laugh Quotes #Loud Quotes
“To be crazy is not necessarily to writhe in snake pits or converse with imaginary gods. It can sometimes be not knowing what to do in the morning.”
-- Christopher Lehmann-Haupt

#Morning Quotes #Crazy Quotes #Snakes Quotes
“Rice Krispies happens to be one of my favorite junk foods, just as I regard Michener as superior among junk writers.”
-- Christopher Lehmann-Haupt

Source : International Herald Tribune, August 08, 1978.

#Junk Quotes #My Favorite Quotes #Junk Food Quotes
“The dream is everything in the sport of fishing. You dream with every cast of your fly that the shadowy form will finally rise to your fly. You dream as you drop off to sleep at night about the lunker that got loose just as you were about to net it.”
-- Christopher Lehmann-Haupt

#Sports Quotes #Dream Quotes #Sleep Quotes
“Even if language is a living evolving organism, we don't have to embrace all the changes that occur during our lifetimes. If language is so alive, it can get sick.”
-- Christopher Lehmann-Haupt

#Sick Quotes #Alive Quotes #Language Quotes
“One is happy to report that Israel Shenker is still at the aerosol stage. His energy is still compressed. The result distinguishes him both as a Jew and as an observer of Jews.”
-- Christopher Lehmann-Haupt

#Israel Quotes #Energy Quotes #Results Quotes
“A brilliant and challenging discussion presented with extraordinary clarity.”
-- Christopher Lehmann-Haupt

#Challenges Quotes #Brilliant Quotes #Clarity Quotes

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