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Herbert Gold, an American novelist, was born on March 9, 1924. His works are known for their humor and profound social insight, primarily focusing on the lives and values of the American middle class.

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All Eye Catastrophe Ifs Young Age Art Artist Asks Bad Jokes Bees

Famous Herbert Gold Quotes

“Literature boils with the madcap careers of writers brought to the edge by the demands of living on their nerves, wringing out their memories and their nightmares to extract meaning, truth, beauty.”

Literature Memories Careers Truth Is Demand Edges Nightmare Nerves Living On

Author:Herbert Gold

“The fact that all of us die anyway (the rumor turns out to be true) is a mere detail in the celestial glow of imagination. The artist's eyes destroy death.”

Facts Eye Artist Dies Turns Imagination Mere Details Being True Rumor Celestial

Book:Bohemia: Digging the Roots of Cool

Source: Bohemia: Digging the Roots of Cool

“The would-bees take their honey from the flowers of creation.”

Creation Flower Honey Bees

Book:Bohemia: Where Art, Angst, Love, and Strong Coffee Meet

Source: Bohemia: Where Art, Angst, Love, and Strong Coffee Meet

“Conformity is inevitable when folks huddle together in rebellion.”

Together Folks Inevitable Rebellion Conformity

Book:Bohemia: Digging the Roots of Cool

Source: Bohemia: Digging the Roots of Cool

“Catastrophe and desire are linked in our lives as the moon is linked to that reflected light from the sun which enables the eye to see it.”

Light Eye Desire Sun Our Lives Moon Catastrophe Linked

Book:The Magic Will: Stories & Essays

Source: The Magic Will: Stories & Essays

“If mankind is naturally good, he is sure going against his nature more and more of the time. It sounds like a bad joke: the paranoids are after us.”

Ifs Sound Mankind Human Nature Jokes Bad Jokes

Author:Herbert Gold

“The magic will which makes us see the other side of our natures-dream and disaster, catastrophe and fulfillment-is the great permanent challenge of humanity.”

Dream Humanity Sides Challenges Magic Disaster Permanent Fulfillment Catastrophe

Book:The Magic Will: Stories & Essays

Source: The Magic Will: Stories & Essays

“Isolation from power makes men look for a mob in which they can be strong.”

Men Looks Strong Isolation

Book:The Magic Will: Stories and Essays

Source: The Magic Will: Stories and Essays

“The steady pressure to consume, absorb, participate, receive, by eye, ear, mouth, and mail involves a cruelty to intestines, blood pressure, and psyche unparalleled in history.”

Eye Blood Mouths Ears Pressure Cruelty Materialism Steady Mail Blood Pressure Intestines

Author:Herbert Gold

“Old age is wasted on the elderly: the young know what to do with it-insist on something different.”

Knows Different Age Young Old Age Elderly

Book:Bohemia: Digging the Roots of Cool

Source: Bohemia: Digging the Roots of Cool

“To construct a proper privacy, making it a privilege rather than a burden, we first need to construct a community-love, family, politics, art.”

Needs Firsts Art Community Privilege Burden Privacy Constructs Family Love

Book:The Magic Will: Stories & Essays

Source: The Magic Will: Stories & Essays

“Being a writer is a rather hazardous occupation and there is a horribly high rate of writers who barely have the money for the paper and pen they use for their craft.”

Use Paper Rate Crafts Pens Occupation Paper And Pen

Author:Herbert Gold

“I always ask young writers, 'Are you certain you want to be a writer? If you're absolutely sure, then do it.' If you really want to write, writing has to take precedence over everything else, except for taking care of your loved ones. It has to be more important than any possession, more important than fame. We hear about just a few writers who get famous, but most of them don't. It's got to mean more than that.”

Ifs Want Writing Mean Important Care Young Certain Asks Fame Possession Loved Ones Young Writers Precedence

Author:Herbert Gold

“With short stories, the story-teller must have a story to tell, not merely some sweet prose to take out for a walk”

Stories Walks Sweet Prose Short Story

Author:Herbert Gold

“He carried his childhood like a hurt warm bird held to his middle-aged breast.”

Children Hurt Childhood Middle Bird Warm Breasts Middle Aged

Book:The Age of Happy Problems

Source: The Age of Happy Problems

About the Author

Born: March 9, 1924
Known for: Novelist
Quotes: 15

Books & Sources

Bohemia: Digging the Roots of CoolRelated source material

The Magic Will: Stories & EssaysRelated source material

Bohemia: Where Art, Angst, Love, and Strong Coffee MeetRelated source material

The Age of Happy ProblemsRelated source material

The Magic Will: Stories and EssaysRelated source material

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