“Someone once told me years ago that there was nothing so dead as a warmed-over love affair.” Quote by Frederic Tuten
“I think we all recognize that one of the problems in American culture is that increasingly, there's no middle ground. That either you're a celebrity writer or a celebrity poet, or else you're nothing.” ThinkingProblemCultureMiddlePoetAmerican CultureMiddle Ground Author:Frederic Tuten
“When you are out of favor, so to speak, it's not just the reviewers. It's the editors, the publishers, they don't want you anymore, you're just gone and you've been written out of history as effectively as the old Stalinists would write someone else out, take their photograph out of a book.” WantWritingBookSpeakGoneWrittenPhotographFavorsEditorsPublishersReviewers Author:Frederic Tuten
“Whether one becomes famous or not, you have to be reminded of people like Melville, who for the last thirty years of his life was completely unknown. He worked in a customs house and walked off to work as an anonymous person in this American culture.” PeopleYearsPersonsLastsCultureHouseThirtyCustomsAmerican CultureThirty YearsMelville Author:Frederic Tuten
“If you're not happy, if you're not Emmersonianly happy and think everything's going to get better, then you're just sort of a dark animal.” IfsThinkingDarkAnimalGet BetterNot Happy Author:Frederic Tuten
“Someone said, in a simplistic way maybe, that all American poetry is either cooked or raw, and if it's cooked, it comes from Poe.” IfsWaySaidPoetry IsAmerican Poetry Author:Frederic Tuten
“You need to have a reader's sympathy in order to accomplish anything. It's like at a reading, I find it's better to read something funny than to read something tragic. It just goes over better because you have a finite amount of time with somebody. Of course, in a book, you have a lot of time. But you still do want to make a certain impression right when you begin.” WantNeedsStillsBookCertainOrderCoursesReadingReaderAmountAccomplishImpressionTragicFinite Author:Jonathan Safran Foer
“Art can be very political but that can't be the purpose of art, it can't be the driving force. It isn't with any of the books that I love, anyway.” ArtBookPoliticalPurposeForceDrivingDriving ForcePurpose Of Art Author:Jonathan Safran Foer
“Just to be a functioning adult in the world, we develop all of these layers of protection. When we see homeless people, we don't cry, even though homeless people probably deserve our tears - you know, it's a horrible thing.” PeopleKnowsWorldCryTearsAdultsDeserveProtectionHorribleLayersHomelessHorrible ThingsHomeless People Author:Jonathan Safran Foer
“September 11 had such a strong visual component, the most visually documented event in human history. Nothing's ever been seen by as many people as that was. Our experiences of the day, our memories of the day are just so tied up in images of buildings falling and bodies falling.” PeopleHumansBodyFallStrongMemoriesEventsBuildingVisualsTiedSeptemberComponentsHuman HistoryOur MemoriesSeptember 11Tied Up Author:Jonathan Safran Foer
“It turns out that we're actually capable of something other than neoliberalism and actually we're really capable of enjoying ourselves more than we do under neoliberalism. It feels that if neoliberalism is first about privatizing desire and imagination before the economy, then we're in this process of publicizing it again.” IfsFeelsFirstsDesireTurnsProcessEnjoyImaginationEconomyCapableNeoliberalism Author:Rebecca Solnit