Alfred Kazin Quotes

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One writes to make a home for oneself, on paper.
— Alfred Kazin Telling Lives: The Biographer’s Art

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When a writer talks about his work, he's talking about a love affair.
— Alfred Kazin Sunday Examiner & Chronicle

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The task is to use our suffering and to use it so well that we can use it up.
— Alfred Kazin Alfred Kazin’s Journals

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I feel as if I were the site of many storms.  Everything keeps thundering through me.
— Alfred Kazin Alfred Kazin’s Journals
We never know how much has been missing from our lives until a true writer comes along.
— Alfred Kazin The Stature of Theodore Dreiser

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