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Irving Howe Quotes

The knowledge that makes us cherish innocence makes innocence unattainable.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: historian
Nationality: american
Birth: June 11, 1920 - May 5, 1993

Topics

Knowledge Innocence Cherish Us Makes

You can't stand at the Bellagio and watch these seven story fountains and not go, 'That's something of extraordinary man-made beauty.'

Beauty Story Stand You Go Something

We may have to have a geo-political regrouping or major geo-political changes.

Changes May Major

I can't really write anything without knowing the ending. I don't know how people do that. Even with my superhero stuff, I have to know at least where I want to take the characters and what the ending of my story with them will be. I just can't structure stories or character arcs and stuff without knowing the endpoint.

Character People Ending Story Know

I was always a character actor, basically, that sometimes looks like a leading man.

Character Man Looks Sometimes Actor

I just wanted to do something about the teenage experience; it's such a wonderful and horrible time of life.

Life Time Experience Wonderful Just

The challenge is to keep up with all the new poets at the same time I love the old ones.

Love Time Challenge New Old Same

In the past, it weighed on me because nobody in my family is gay. I had no role models so I had to find my own way.

Family Past Me Find Gay Nobody

There are various kinds of savagery: emotional, spiritual, economic, and cultural savagery.

Spiritual Emotional Economic Kinds

At least for the people who send me mail about a new language that they're designing, the general advice is: do it to learn about how to write a compiler.

People Me Language Advice Learn New

While the war in Iraq was raging, I spent some time in neighbouring Jordan, meeting with Iraqi refugees who fled their country to try to find some place of safety. I interviewed many families about what had happened to them and what they did as a result.

Time War Safety Result Find Meeting

I think once you're past 30 you shouldn't wear a lot of glitter.

Past Think Glitter You Wear I Think

From 1964 to 1968, I won many state, national and international amateur karate titles.

Titles State Karate Amateur Many

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