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Quote by Elaine Dundy

“Acting doesn't bring anything to a text. On the contrary, it detracts from it.”

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Elaine Dundy (August 1, 1921 - May 1, 2008) was an American novelist known for her distinctive writing style and profound portrayal of female characters. more

“From authors whom I read more than once I learn to value the weight of words and to delight in their meter and cadence -- in Gibbon's polyphonic counterpoint and Guedalla's command of the subjunctive, in Mailer's hyperbole and Dillard's similes, in Twain's invectives and burlesques with which he set the torch of his ferocious wit to the hospitality tents of the world's colossal humbug . . . I know no other way out of what is both the maze of the eternal present and the prison of the self except with a string of words.”

Knows World Way Self Values Eternal Weight Prison Delight Wit Command Strings Hospitality Simile Torches Tents Meter Mazes Colossal Cadence Humbug Hyperbole

Author:Lewis H. Lapham

“I begin to understand that failure is its own reward. It is in the effort to close the distance between the work imagined and the work achieved wherein it is to be found that the ceaseless labor is the freedom of play, that what’s at stake isn’t a reflection in the mirror of fame but the escape from the prison of the self.”

Self Play Found Effort Fame Reflection Labor Mirrors Distance Prison Rewards Stakes

Author:Lewis H. Lapham

“Unlike any other business in the United States, sports must preserve an illusion of perfect innocence.”

States Sports Perfect United United States Illusion Innocence Preserves Popular Sports

Author:Lewis H. Lapham

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