Steve Almond Quotes

• We need books...because we are all, in the private kingdoms of our hearts, desperate for the company of a wise, true friend.

  Steve Almond

  Wise, True Friend, Book

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• Algo es gracioso, sobre todo, porque es verdad, y porque la velocidad de percepción de esta verdad supera nuestros estándares normales. Algo es gracioso porque se sale de nuestros límites aceptados de decoro. Algo es gracioso porque desafía nuestras expectativas. Algo es gracioso porque ofrece un respiro temporal de la dificultad de ver el mundo tal y como es. Algo es gracioso porque es capaz de sugerirnos amablemente que incluso la peor de nuestras circunstancias y pecados está sujeta a una eventual misericordia.

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  Expectations, Velocity, Able

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• At the end of night, before you close your eyes, be content with what you've done and be proud of who you are.

  Steve Almond

  Eye, Night, Done

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• Football is the most successful cult, in terms of members and profits, in human history. Oh wait, there's also religion.

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  Football, Successful, Waiting

  Fuente: therumpus.net

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• We are all, in the private kingdom of our hearts, desperate for the company of a wise, true friend. Someone who isn’t embarrassed by our emotions, or her own, who recognizes that life is short and all that we have to offer, in the end, is love.

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  Wise, True Friend, Heart

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• All readers come to fiction as willing accomplices to your lies. Such is the basic goodwill contract made the moment we pick up a work of fiction.

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  Lying, Reading, Writing

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• De vez en cuando me encuentro con alguien que dice que no le gusta el chocolate y, aunque vivimos en un país en el que todo el mundo tiene derecho a comer lo que quiera, quiero dejar constancia de que no me fío de esa gente, que creo que les pasa algo y que probablemente -y esto hay que decirlo- sean unos completos inútiles en la cama.

  Steve Almond

  Correr, País, Pensar

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• I want to view my own efforts to write a novel as a function of my own artistic aspirations rather than a good career move. And I need to learn how to commit to characters for a longer time, to confront the limits of my own capacities for attention and compassion. That's what a writing career does, in the best instance: it allows you to keep after what you can't do.

  Steve Almond

  Mudanza, Escritura, Carácter

  Fuente: www.popmatters.com

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• Nothing on Earth is so beautiful as the final haul on Halloween night.

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  Beautiful, Halloween, Night

  Steve Almond (2004). “Candyfreak: A Journey through the Chocolate Underbelly of America”, p.32, Algonquin Books

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• The single biggest reason I got my stories taken in various literary magazines - and I want to stress this - is because I refused to give up. Period.

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  Giving Up, Stress, Taken

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• The truth is, every sport has been turned into a huge, nihilistic business.

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  Sports, Truth Is, Has Beens

  Fuente: therumpus.net

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• Much as I love stories, I think I'll only be satisfied with myself as a writer if I'm able to produce a novel that feels publishable. The books that truly take me away - for weeks at a time - are all novels.

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  Book, Thinking, Love Story

  Fuente: www.popmatters.com

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• To look at the work of your peers, and learn how to explain with kindness and precision, the nature of their mistakes is, in fact, how you learn to diagnose your own work.

  Steve Almond

  Kindness, Mistake, Peers

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• But the real life of a writer resides in showing up at the keyboard every day, with the necessary patience and mercy, and making the best decisions you can on behalf of your people. It’s a slow process. It often feels hopeless, more like an affliction than an art form. Most of us will have to find our readers one by one, in other words, and against considerable resistance. If anything qualifies us as heroic, it’s that private perpetual struggle. Put down the magazine, soldier. Forget about the other guy. Remember who you are.

  Steve Almond

  Art, Real, Struggle

  "The New Yorker’s One Over 40" by Steve Almond, therumpus.net. June 14, 2010.

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• There's something incredibly liberating about a holiday that encourages children to take candy from strangers

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  Children, Holiday, Stranger

  Steve Almond (2004). “Candyfreak: A Journey through the Chocolate Underbelly of America”, p.30, Algonquin Books

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• I've felt pressure to produce long fiction for as long as I've been writing fiction. There's just an incredible bias in the publishing industry toward novels and away from short stories. They're seen as D.O.A. in the marketplace, which seems nuts to me, given that various collections done smashingly and deservedly well in economic terms.

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  Escribir, Largo, Hecho

  Fuente: www.popmatters.com

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• A good teacher, after all, wields the authority of a parent with none of the psychological baggage. The best of them are semi-mysterious figures whose wisdom seems boundless and whose approval helps us discover who we are.

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  Teacher, Parent, Who We Are

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• But something occurred to me as I sped through that dirty shroud of fog, something Vonnegut has been trying to explain to the rest of us for most of his life. And that is this: Despair is a form of hope. It is an acknowledgment of the distance between ourselves and our appointed happiness. At certain moments, it is reason enough to live.

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  Distance, Dirty, Fog

  Steve Almond (2007). “(Not that You Asked): Rants, Exploits, and Obsessions”, p.33, Random House

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• There's an invisible army of woman and men who really don't get why we give so much of ourselves to football. And they need to SPEAK UP.

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  Football, Army, Men

  Fuente: therumpus.net

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• I'm going to proportion more time to organizing and taking action and less time to passively consuming news that is dispiriting me. Part of this will be to get off social media. I know social media is just a tool, but we've been using it in a way that has transformed us from a nation into an audience, passively spectating our own ruin.

  Steve Almond

  Action, Social Media, Audience

  Fuente: www.wbur.org

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• Most forms of rage, after all, are only sloppy cloaks for grief.

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  Grief, Rage, Form

  Steve Almond (2004). “Candyfreak: A Journey through the Chocolate Underbelly of America”, p.198, Algonquin Books

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• Art arises from loss. I wish this weren't the case. I wish that every time I met a new woman and she rocked my world, I was inspired to write my ass off. But that is not what happens. What happens is we lie around in bed eating chocolate and screwing. Art is what happens when things don't work out, when you're licking your wounds. Art is, to a larger extent than people would like to think, a productive licking of the wounds.

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  Art, Lying, Writing

  Steve Almond (2004). “Candyfreak: A Journey Through the Chocolate Underbelly of America”, p.38, Algonquin Books

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• The answer is that we don't choose our freaks, they choose us.

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  Life, Answers, Freak

  Steve Almond (2004). “Candyfreak: A Journey through the Chocolate Underbelly of America”, p.9, Algonquin Books

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• It's like this when you fall hard for a musician. It's a crush with religious overtones. You listen to the songs and you memorize the words and the notes and this is a form of prayer. You attend the shows and this is the liturgy. You're interested in relics -- guitar picks, set lists, the sweaty napkin applied to His brow. You set up shrines in your room. It's not just about the music. It's about who you are when you listen to the music and who you wish to be and the way a particular song can bridge that gap, can make you feel the abrupt thrill of absolute faith.

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  Crush, Song, Religious

  Steve Almond (2010). “Rock and Roll Will Save Your Life: A Book by and for the Fanatics Among Us”, p.71, Random House

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• Why are people so fascinated by how to eat Valomilks?’ She said, ‘Well, Dad, they’re round and they’re messy. But that’s what makes them fun. Once we get older we’re not supposed to be messy anymore. But for one moment when you’re eating a Valomilk, it’s okay to be messy again.

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  Fun, Dad, People

  Steve Almond (2004). “Candyfreak: A Journey Through the Chocolate Underbelly of America”, p.190, Algonquin Books

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