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Malcolm Cowley Quotes

It would have been the equivalent of Jackson Pollock's attempts to copy the Sistine Chapel.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: critic
Nationality: american
Birth: August 24, 1898 - March 27, 1989

Topics

Copy Been Would Chapel Equivalent

It's not all fine and dandy, but a smile can go a long way. Show some love, be patient, and this world will be a much better place.

Smile Love World Better Long Place

Yelp is - I mean, Yelp's not even good for looking up the restaurant's phone number because, you know, on the site, they just want you to read their reviews and look at their ads. They don't even actually want to give you the information about the restaurant or the menu.

Good Looking Restaurant You Look

Issues of energy, climate change, nuclear arms control and non-proliferation are all big deals. These are problems that we have to get right globally, not just nationally, and there are big benefits in cooperating, in terms of sharing costs, in terms of sharing risks, in terms of propagating the best answers.

Change Best Risks Control Energy

When you're your parents' one shot at a genetic legacy, you may get to attend all the best schools, wear all the best clothes and eat all the best foods - at least relative to children in multiple-sibling households. But you also wind up with an overweening sense of your own importance.

Children Best Parents Wind Legacy

Getting married is great, and I feel really good away from the court, and my private life and stuff is good. But you still need to train and work hard. Like, I didn't go on a honeymoon after we got married; I went to Barcelona and trained for 10 days to get ready for the clay-court season. It's been good, but you still have to put the work in.

Life Work Good Great Work Hard You

This is technology that will not go away. And to risk it moving into the hands of a terrorist group like al Qaeda or to other focused enemies of the United States, would have tragic consequences.

Technology Moving Hands Consequences

However, in modern conceptual frameworks there is a more sophisticated view. I would say that the act of music exists in several worlds simultaneously.

Music View Say More Act Modern

Keeping busy: This is a problem that you're glad to have.

Michael Winslow

Busy Problem You Glad Keeping

When I'm near a native community, I visit it. If I hear there's a spiritual person in the neighborhood, I'll seek them out.

Community Spiritual Person Out Seek

Dogs and philosophers do the greatest good and get the fewest rewards.

Good Dogs Greatest Get Rewards

Threats mean nothing to me.

Me Nothing Mean Threats

One thing that's really delightful is my books tend to attract people who are funny, so I get the benefit of people writing me with things that crack me up.

Christopher Moore

Funny People Me Writing Up Things

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