Dwight Macdonald Quotes

#1. One cannot demand that anybody be a hero, though one can hope for it.

Dwight Macdonald

#2. Paul Newman is simple not an actor and possibly not even alive.

Dwight Macdonald

#3. Life was full of the ludicrous that ended in bloody murder.

J.D. Robb

#4. There is nothing more vulgar than sophisticated kitsch.

Dwight Macdonald

#5. I like journalists.

George Wendt

#6. By 'socialism' I mean a classless society in which the State has disappeared, production is cooperative, and no man has political or economic power over another. The touchstone would be the extent to which each individual could develop his own talents and personality.

Dwight Macdonald

#7. As for my father, I never knew whether he believed God was a mathematician but he certainly believed God could count and that only by picking up God's rhythms were we able to regain power and beauty. Unlike many Presbyterians, he often used the word beautiful.

Norman Maclean

#8. Conversation means being able to disagree and still continue the discussion

Dwight Macdonald

#9. All things truly wicked start from innocence.

Ernest Hemingway,

#10. Always carry a corkscrew and the wine shall provide itself.

Basil Bunting

#11. I was always a really big fan of R. L. Stine and the 'Goosebumps' T.V. series and the 'Goosebumps' books.

Dylan Minnette

#12. What is the secret, my darling, of your being everything to all of us, as if there werre only one of us, yet never seeming to be hurried, or to have too much to do?
-Darney to Lucie

Charles Dickens

#13. I figured that, if you do a vampire movie in Hollywood, you've made it.

Christopher Atkins

#14. I hate that people think going to the theatre is a special occasion. I wish people would treat it as normally as going to the cinema.

Brenda Blethyn

#15. Come, fruit of my loins, we're going for a walk.

Kim Harrington

#16. Pacifism, to me, is primarily a way of actively struggling against injustice and inhumanity; My kind of pacifism may be called "non-violent resistance".

Dwight Macdonald

#17. Why doesn't glue stick to the inside of the bottle, Frau Elena?

Anthony Doerr