9 Mind-Blowing Quotes By Malcolm Cowley

No complete son of a bitch ever wrote a good sentence.

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...but you drank your black coffee by choice, believeng that Paris was sufficient alcohol.

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They tell you that you'll lose your mind when you grow older. What they don't tell you is that you won't miss it very much.

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Be kind and considerate with your criticism... It's just as hard to write a bad book as it is to write a good book.

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It would have been the equivalent of Jackson Pollock's attempts to copy the Sistine Chapel.

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Going back to Hemingway's work after several years is like going back to a brook where you had often fished and finding the woods as deep and cool as they used to be.

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Age is not different from earlier life as long as you're sitting down.

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Talent is what you possess; genius is what possesses you.

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Authors are sometimes like tomcats: They distrust all the other toms but they are kind to kittens.

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