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Howard Nemerov Quotes

Obvious enough that generalities work to protect the mind from the great outdoors; is it possible that this was in fact their first purpose?

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: poet
Nationality: american
Birth: February 29, 1920 - July 5, 1991

Topics

Work Great Purpose Mind Outdoors

Books support us in our solitude and keep us from being a burden to ourselves.

Support Solitude Burden Keep Us Our

I'm a fan of some horror. Some of the really corny b-horror movies I don't love so much, but 'Rosemary's Baby' is one of my favorite movies.

Love Baby Movies Horror Fan Corny

My family didn't push me into the music industry; they just wanted me to do something I loved.

Family Music Me Loved Push Industry

There were a lot of stereotypes that I had to break of how people in the entertainment industry do business.

Business People Stereotypes Break

I see myself as a social conservative, but I think that there are lots of social institutions that produce beneficial reforms, like public hospitals, for instance, and schools.

Myself Think Conservative See I See

I went to the London School of Economics to study sociology and psychology on a serviceman's grant.

School Economics Sociology London

Of course I've already taken a very modest position on the monetary system, I do take the position that we should just end the Fed.

End Position System Take Just Taken

Increasingly, to dismiss any popular artistic style is seen as the worst kind of snobbery. And snobbery, it goes without saying, is unacceptable in a diverse and democratic world.

Style World Saying Kind Worst Seen

We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like?

Success Luck Believe Explain Must

Before the Beatles, America was musically a very conservative country. You can see film footage of people at a baseball game, they all had hats and ties on, and the women were dressed up like they were going to church. That was the America that I started getting interested in musically.

Women Baseball People Game Church

Very rarely is there any confusion as to when a painting or a song is finished. You just know when it's done.

Painting Song You Know Done Just

The lack of fiscal responsibility is one of the main reasons I finally left my old Party.

Responsibility Party Old Left Main

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