Quotes from Irving Wallace

To be ones self and unafraid whether right or wrong is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity.

Every man can transform the world from one of monotony and drabness to one of excitement and adventure.

To be one's self, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity.

If you talk about it, you probably won't write it

kau harus memperlakukan kegiatan menulismu sebagai sebuah karier. Kau tidak boleh membicarakannya. Kau harus melakukannya-ingin melakukannya, suka melakukannya walaupun harus kesepian, merasa bahwa di bumi tidak ada yang lebih penting ketika kau sedang melakukannya.

Those poor people know Communism gives them bread, while democracy gives them a vote and a Letter to the Editor.

menulislah setiap hari, berpura-pura bahwa kau menerima gaji, berpura-pura bahwa kau harus menyerahkan sesuatu atau dipecat

schizophrenic land of liberty

The immediate future is not in the hands of our first Negro President. It is in our hands, for better or for worse.

No one, in an open society, following the rules of that society, had the right to come between an idea and its audience.

Each and every one of these leaders was a Negro citizen of the United States. They had earned the right to guide us, help us, not because their colored forebears helped free us and defend us in the Revolutionary War, in the War of 1812, in the Union Army of Lincoln and Grant, in the First and Second World Wars, in Korea, but because they were part of our whole, part of each of us, with the same stakes and goals.

For the middle majority of us all, knowledge of Negroes firsthand is probably limited—limited to the colored cleaning woman, who comes twice a week, limited to the colored baseball player who saves or loses a home game, limited to the garage mechanic, or dime-store clerk, or blues singer seen and heard on a Saturday night. To this white majority, the black man is as unknown as once was the heart of the Dark Continent of Africa.

he who lives on hope will die fasting—

When you are a free and independent writer, without employer, without hours or deadlines, you have to play little games to force yourself into the actual writing. For me, one game is to announce...that I have finally decided on my next book, that I am ready to write it...to put my pride on the line.

Our own domestic Negro situation is another thing.

You are only really in love once in your life, and that is the first time.

Questa ipersessualità potrebbe essere un mezzo per procurarsi quest'amore ora, da adulta. Ma non serve a niente, capite: nessun uomo, nemmeno cento uomini, possono dare quel che i suoi genitori le hanno negato più di venti anni fa.

reception room. Mr. Razin will bring you further instructions." No sooner had she left the office than Petrov pointed his chair toward Alex Razin. "Well, Razin, what do you think?" "Of her? As you said—she is nearly perfect. Let her hair grow longer, eliminate the small cheek scar, shorten the nose slightly, and she is Billie Bradford." "No, I mean my story. Did she believe it?

the world must not be run by men who are smiling, charming, incompetent reflections of the nincompoop masses. There are those of us who believe that the affairs of the world can be conducted peacefully and efficiently only by authorities who are not experts alone but who are also men of decisiveness.

Scandal, vice, crime would be played down. Editorials and news stories would be signed. And for the first time, stories of virtue and good will would be featured on the front page.

O mundo pode identificar-se com um mártir desamparado. Mas seis milhões de judeus foram perseguidos e assassinados na Alemanha e o mundo fica perturbado intelectualmente, mas emocionalmente calmo, tratando de sua própria vida, porque, ora, quem pode identificar-se com seis milhões de mortos?

How could she be a helpmate to a public figure already so successful, the foremost member of the President's Cabinet? How could she be of any use to a public figure who already possessed everything?

Perhaps the Negro musicians had not been able to give enough because they were inhibited by her Southern-supremacy origins.

Lourdes in Nevers,