“All literary men are Red Sox fans - to be a Yankee fan in a literate society is to endanger your life.”
John Cheever
“I dont know who it is to blame. Men for treating women like nothing till they were the most revealing clothing ever to get noticed by them. Or women for caving in to the unrealistic opinion of a women in a mans mind.”
“There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write”
Thomas Carlyle
“Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die.”
Voltaire
“Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.”
Samuel Johnson
“Our authors and scholars are generally men of business, and make their literary pursuits subservient to their interests.”
Benjamin Rush
“In general I do not draw well with literary men / not that I dislike them but I never know what to say to them after I have praised their last publication.”
Lord Byron
