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Malcolm Cowley quotes

American Critic August 24, 1898 – March 27, 1989

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They were learning that New York had another life, too? subterranean, like almost everything that was human in the city? a life of writers meeting in restaurants at lunchtime or in coffee houses after business hours to talk of work just started or magazines unpublished, and even to lay modest plans for the future. Modestly they were beginning to write poems worth the trouble of reading to their friends over coffee cups. Modestly they were rebelling once more. Malcolm Cowley
Malcolm Cowley quote: "Age is not different from earlier life as long as you're..."
Age is not different from earlier life as long as you're sitting down. Malcolm Cowley
Everywhere was the atmosphere of a long debauch that had to end; the orchestras played too fast, the stakes were too high at the gambling tables, the players were so empty, so tired, secretly hoping to vanish together into sleep and ... maybe wake on a very distant morning and hear nothing, whatever, no shouting or crooning, find all things changed. Malcolm Cowley
Malcolm Cowley quote: "Be kind and considerate with your criticism... It's just as..."
Be kind and considerate with your criticism... It's just as hard to write a bad book as it is to write a good book. Malcolm Cowley
Going back to Hemingway's work after several years is like going back to a brook where you had often fished and finding the woods as deep and cool as they used to be. Malcolm Cowley
Malcolm Cowley quote: "No complete son of a bitch ever wrote a good sentence."
No complete son of a bitch ever wrote a good sentence. Malcolm Cowley
Malcolm Cowley quote: "but you drank your black coffee by choice, believeng that..."
...but you drank your black coffee by choice, believeng that Paris was sufficient alcohol. Malcolm Cowley
Malcolm Cowley quote: "They tell you that you'll lose your mind when you grow older...."
They tell you that you'll lose your mind when you grow older. What they don't tell you is that you won't miss it very much. Malcolm Cowley
Malcolm Cowley quote: "Authors are sometimes like tomcats: They distrust all the..."
Authors are sometimes like tomcats: They distrust all the other toms but they are kind to kittens. Malcolm Cowley
Malcolm Cowley quote: "Talent is what you possess; genius is what possesses you."
Talent is what you possess; genius is what possesses you. Malcolm Cowley
Malcolm Cowley quote: "It would have been the equivalent of Jackson Pollock's..."
It would have been the equivalent of Jackson Pollock's attempts to copy the Sistine Chapel. Malcolm Cowley

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