Famous quotes containing the words american, book and/or award:
“The newspaper has debauched the American until he is a slavish, simpering, and angerless citizen; it has taught him to be a lump mass-man toward fraud, simony, murder, and lunacies more vile than those of Commodus or Caracalla.”
—Edward Dahlberg (19001977)
“The existence of good bad literaturethe fact that one can be amused or excited or even moved by a book that ones intellect simply refuses to take seriouslyis a reminder that art is not the same thing as cerebration.”
—George Orwell (19031950)
“The award of a pure gold medal for poetry would flatter the recipient unduly: no poem ever attains such carat purity.”
—Robert Graves (18951985)
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