Richard Slotkin Quotes & Sayings

If a single nutty or dangerous vision comes to be sufficiently widely shared, demagogues may be able to ride it to power. — Christopher H. Achen

What kind of world is this? And what do you do about it? What do you do when the worst thing that can happen actually happens? — Jandy Nelson

The bravest are usually those whom we do not know or hear about, those anonymous men who dig the trenches, who produce the food. — F. Sionil Jose

Some writers thrive on the contact with the commerce of success; others are corrupted by it. Perhaps, like losing one's virginity,it is not as bad (or as good) as one feared it was going to be. — V.S. Pritchett

I watched her leave with a curious mixture of relief and terror. I was alone again. Fear clutched at my chest and I wanted to call her back. I wondered if it would be different if my mother were alive. I wondered if she would be by my side, stroking my forehead, and whether I'd feel pure comfort, rather than this strange clawing mix of emotions. I knew my mother through stories, photographs and her brightly coloured dreamcatchers. I'd always thought that she would understand me, that she'd be warm and open, and that I would have grown up to be an entirely different person had she been around. — Sarah Painter

Why no pictures?" While I knew from the beginning that I did not want to include them, it took lengthy discussion with readers to articulate exactly why. It comes down to the fact that photos capture one instant in a person's life. I hoped to bring these people alive as complex individuals: hopeful, gloomy, anxious, playful, devious, etc. Photos, within these covers, undermine that, in my opinion. So we left them out. Photos — Dave Cullen

Humor - it helps to make the vibe better - it loosens up the vibrations. — Brian Wilson

True rebels after all, are as rare as true lovers,and in both cases, to mistake a fever for passion can destroy one's life — James Baldwin

I would write plays for my grandmother, who was stone deaf, my mother and the dog, that was our audience. — Jayne Meadows

I do not attach
any exaggerated importance to my poetical works. Life is
there to be lived rather than to be written about. My aim
is to search out the manifold experience that it offers,
wringing from each moment what of emotion it presents.
I look upon my writing as a graceful accomplishment
which does not absorb but rather adds pleasure to
existence. And as for posterity - damn posterity. — W. Somerset Maugham

You'll find out when you reach the top, you're on the bottom. — Bob Dylan

[...] Buddhism has been so much admired mainly for what it is not. — Ananda K. Coomaraswamy

A boy or girl who has gone through the eight grades should possess a complete, practical education and should have received special training in some specific line of work, fitting him or her to earn a livelihood. — Arthur Capper

Every man is his own doctor of divinity, in the last resort. — Robert Louis Stevenson