Marshall Fishwick quotes

“The uncommitted life isn't worth living.”
-- Marshall Fishwick

Source : Marshall William Fishwick (1963). “Faust Revisited: Some Thoughts on Satan”

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“As a student of American culture, I am willing to argue that the Twist is a valid manifestation of the Age of Anxiety.”
-- Marshall Fishwick

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“Every hero mirrors the time and place in which he lives. He must reflect men's innermost hopes and beliefs in a public way.”
-- Marshall Fishwick

Source : Marshall William Fishwick (1969). “The hero, American style”

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“Breakfast is everything. The beginning, the first thing. It is the mouthful that is the commitment to a new day, a continuing life.”

“Love shouldn't be about jealousy or anything like that. It should be about commitment and being able to trust that person. If you can't have that from the get-go, there's a problem.”

“Smoking dope and hanging up Che's picture is no more a commitment than drinking milk and collecting postage stamps.”

“Smoking dope and hanging up Che's picture is no more a commitment than drinking milk and collecting postage stamps. A revolution in consciousness is an empty high without a revolution in the distribution of power. We are not interested in the greening of Amerika except for the grass that will cover its grave.”

“I demand pretty aggressive goal setting and a commitment to measured progress towards those goals because I don't like surprises. I don't even like good surprises.”

“Commitment is what transforms a promise into reality.”

“There was a moment when I changed from an amateur to a professional. I assumed the burden of a profession, which is to write even when you don't want to, don't much like what you're writing, and aren't writing particularly well”

“It is true that Mr. Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, after which there was a commitment to give 40 acres and a mule. That's where the argument, to this day, of reparations starts. We never got the 40 acres. We went all the way to Herbert Hoover, and we never got the 40 acres. We didn't get the mule. So we decided we'd ride this donkey as far as it would take us.”

“Excuses are the crutches of the uncommitted.”

“The uncommitted life isn't worth living.”

Source : Marshall William Fishwick (1963). “Faust Revisited: Some Thoughts on Satan”