I talk to my typewriter and that is what I've been working on for 40 years-how to write for talking.
More Quotes from Alistair Cooke:
Man has an incurable habit of not fulfilling the prophecies of his fellow men.Alistair Cooke
Between a quarter and a third of Los Angeles's land area is now monopolized by the automobile and its needs-by freeways, highways, garages, gas stations, car lots, parking lots. And all of it is blanketed with anonymity and foul air.
Alistair Cooke
Hollywood grew to be the most flourishing factory of popular mythology since the Greeks.
Alistair Cooke
As always, the British especially shudder at the latest American vulgarity, and then they embrace it with enthusiasm two years later.
Alistair Cooke
To watch an American on a beach or crowding into a subway, or buying a theater ticket, or sitting at home with his radio on, tells you something about one aspect of the American character the capacity to withstand a great deal of outside interference, so to speak a willing acceptance of frenzy which though its never self-conscious, amounts o a willingness to let other people have and assert their own lively, and even offensive, character. They are a tough race in this.
Alistair Cooke
These humiliations are the essence of the game.
Alistair Cooke
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