Top 39 Howard Fast Quotes
#1. To be dogmatic about a cause you believe in at the age of 20 or 30 is not unusual. But to be dogmatic at age 55 or 60 shows a lack of any learning capacity.
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#2. Either you get a chance to be a kid when you are a kid, or you don't grow up.
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#3. The easiest way to hide a relationship is not to attempt to hide it.
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#4. It's been said that I am the most widely read writer of the 20th century. The number of books I've sold runs into untold millions.
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#5. You seem damn sure of yourself for a man your age?"
"I am as old as I can be at my age. I don't know very much, but I know the water.
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#6. Like most thoughtful people who watch what's going on in Washington, venting is very necessary.
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#7. The play is a marvelous form, but it demands less than a novel.
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#8. A critic is a eunuch working in a harem. He watches it, but he knows he can't do it. Critics very often are failed writers and, like failed priests, they hate religion.
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#9. Computers: he always fixed on computers when his mind wandered into the future
instruments he revered and hated. The computer world was a place where snotty kids knew everything and nothing ... The computer was part of a future cloudy, unpredictable and menacing.
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#10. When I kissed her, I felt that my heart would tear through my chest for excitement and wonder, and then I felt a good, empty sicknesss, if you can speak of anything in such contradictory terms.
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#11. I am a Zen Buddhist - but that is not to be thought of as a religion in
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#12. Geronimo [is] ... an example of our practice of destroying those who oppose us and then honoring them.
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#13. I was born and grew up in the greatest, the noblest achievement of the human race on this planet - which was called the United States of America.
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#14. I always thought that socialism here would be peculiarly American, with some reasonable, post-industrial evolution between working-class needs and market forces. It won't be bloody like the Russian Revolution.
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#15. In L.A., you work like hell because there is nothing else to do, unless you're cheating on your wife.
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#16. A mountain still in the distance can appear as a molehill.
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#17. My books were attacked constantly by the Communist Party for not hewing to the Party line. I have never hewed to a Party line of any kind.
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#18. And finally, be assured that Zen asks nothing even as it promises nothing. One can be a Protestant Zen Buddhist, a Catholic Zen Buddhist or a Jewish Zen Buddhist. Zen is a quiet thing. It listens.
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#19. I was part of a generation that believed in socialism and finally found that belief corroded and destroyed. That is not renouncing Communism or socialism. It's reaching a certain degree of enlightenment about what the Soviet Union practices.
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#20. In the Congress of the United States, Cromwell had known a good many men who were possessed of absolute certainty, and this he feared so much that he felt the only real and enduring evil on the face of the earth was unbending certainty, unshakable orthodoxy.
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#21. I'm disenchanted with Communism and most other things. I'm cynical but not a cynic. I'm cynical about TV, Congress, and commercial peanut butter.
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#22. I was in federal prison in West Virginia for three months for contempt of Congress for a refusing to comply with a request of a Congressional committee of Congress, the House Un-American Activities Committee.
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#23. Yiddish for gall, nerve, arrogance-whatever
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#24. The only thing that infuriates me is that I have more unwritten stories in me than I can conceivably write in a lifetime.
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#25. The dignity is in the worker, not in the job.
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#26. I suppose I have cause you grief and misery at times, but I have never intentionally caused you embarrassment and discomfort.
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#27. I am a man of peace [so he told Mother, but it always appeared to me that he was the most belligerent man of peace I had ever encountered]
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#28. A man who will traduce those who stood with him in battle is not worth much.
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#29. Most assuredly Zen is a religion, but it is a religion without scripture, without doctrine or dogma and without sin.
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#30. The Rosenberg case had been orchestrated to an anti-Communist frenzy that matched the exuberant hysteria of the Nazi horror.
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#31. Politicians were beginning to
realize that if one cannot have the glory of successful war on foreign soil, one
can do almost as well by creating a minor replica at home
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#32. Americans have no sense of history. And not much memory. They don't remember what happened yesterday.
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#33. Your life is nothing, just a little makeshift that you play with for a while, a machine that you put to use. And if something cracks it, then it's cracked, that's all.
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#34. There is nothing more important than being a man, just a plain, ordinary, human man. I know you think Spartacus is something more than a man. He isn't. If he were, then he wouldn't be any good at all.
There is no great mystery about Spartacus.
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#35. Let us say that kindness costs me so little and rewards me well.
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#36. Since I believe that a person's philosophical point of view has little meaning if it is not matched by being and action, I found myself willingly wed to an endless series of unpopular causes, experiences which I feel enriched my writing as much as they depleted other aspects of my life.
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#37. When military men take over, honest men dance to the strings they pull.
Your life is no longer your own.
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#38. Man is a part of God, or else he is a beast; and beasts know love and fear and hate and hunger
but not exultation
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#39. Only people who suffer show the ravages of age.
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