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Nancy Milford _ Savage Beauty: The Life of
Jack Reed, whom The New York Times had labeled "the Bolshevik agitator," hesitated and then equivocated on the stand. But by then the defense of The Masses was plain: criticism of the government didn't amount to a desire to overthrow it. If all hostile opinion were suppressed, how could Americans believe they lived in a free country? Dissent was a safeguard to freedom, not an impediment."
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Nancy Milford _ Zelda
It's the first time I've seen early morning in a terribly long time- The sun all yellow and red, like a huge luminous peach hanging on a black shadow-tree-just visible thru the mist-
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Nancy Milford _ Savage Beauty: The Life of
One of the first things Vincent explained to Norma was that there was a certain freedom of language in the Village that mustn't shock her. It wasn't vulgar. 'So we sat darning socks on Waverly Place and practiced the use of profanity as we stitched. Needle in, . Needle out, piss. Needle in, . Needle out, c. Until we were easy with the words.
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Nancy Milford _ Zelda
Zelda was a creature who overflowed with activity, radiant with desire to take from life every chance her charm, youth, and intelligence provided so abundantly.
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Nancy Milford _ Zelda
I was in love with a whirlwind and I must spin a net big enough to catch it,
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Nancy Milford _ Zelda
He fought for his very survival. If he fought dirty sometimes that does not diminish the fact that he refused to give up.
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Nancy Milford _ Zelda
It was not, Zelda wrote, prosperity or the softness of life, or any instability that marred the war generation; it was a great emotional disappointment resulting from the fact that life moved in poetic gestures when they were younger and had since settled back into buffoonery.
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Nancy Milford _ Zelda
The men came from every imaginable economic and social level of American life, "men who were better dressed in their uniforms than ever before in their lives," as Zelda wrote later, "and men from Princeton and Yale who smelled of Russian Leather and seemed very used to being alive…." The larger world that Zelda dreamed of was at her doorstep and accessible.
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Nancy Milford _ Zelda
I hope I'll never get ambitious enough to try anything. It's so much nicer to be damned sure I could do it better than other people - and I might not could if I tried...
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Nancy Milford _ Savage Beauty: The Life of
If I can write just one poem that will turn the minds of a few to a more decent outlook...what does it matter if I compose a bad line or lose my reputation as a craftsman?...I used to think it very important to write only good poetry. Over and over I worked it to make it as flawless as I could. What does it matter now, when men are dying for their hopes and their ideals? If I live or die as a poet it won't matter, but anyone who believes in democracy and freedom and love and culture and peace ought to be busy now. He cannot wait for the tomorrow.
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Nancy Milford _ Savage Beauty: The Life of
My candle burns at both ends; It will not last the night; But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends- It gives a lovely light!
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Nancy Milford _ Zelda
It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain forever a harmonious conception of memory.
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