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“I used to have a great love for Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy, the big boys of the last century.”

Bigs Lasts Used Literature Boys Century Great Love Dostoyevsky

Author:Norman MacCaig

“I'm a country boy. I hate New York. But that's where things happen, so I use it as a base for stories, I know enough about it. But I have to keep going back there.”

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Author:Mickey Spillane

“To see a priest making his meditation before Mass does more for an altar boy's vocation than a thousand pieces of inspirational literature.”

Doe Literature Boys Pieces Meditation Thousand Mass Priests Vocation Altars

Book:The Priest Is Not His Own

Source: The Priest Is Not His Own

“A boy doesn't have to go to war to be a hero; he can say he doesn't like pie when he sees there isn't enough to go around.”

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Author:E. W. Howe

“There is nothing so aggravating as a fresh boy who is too old to ignore and too young to kick.”

Young Literature Boys Kicks Aggravation Aggravating

Author:Kin Hubbard

“As for literature It gives no man a sinecure. And no one knows, at sight, a masterpiece. And give up verse, my boy, There's nothing in it.”

Knows Men Giving Literature Boys Giving Up Sight Verses Masterpiece My Boys

Author:Ezra Pound

“This act of empathy, that women go through from the time we're little girls - we read all of literature, all of history, it's really about boys, most of it. But I can feel more like Peter Pan than Tinker Bell, or like Wendy. I wanted to be Tom Sawyer, not Becky. And we're so used to that act of empathizing with the protagonist of a male-driven plot. I mean, that's what we've done all our lives. You read history, you read great literature, Shakespeare, it's all fellas, you know?”

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Author:Meryl Streep

“I've grown up well, partly because there weren't great girls' literature - Nancy Drew, maybe - but there weren't things. So there was Huck Finn and "Spin And Marty." The boys characters were interesting and you lived through them when you're watching it.”

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Author:Meryl Streep