Famous quotes containing the words eastman, dry and/or plate:
“Men will not give up their privilege of helplessness without a struggle. The average man has a carefully cultivated ignorance about household mattersfrom what to do with the crumbs to the grocers telephone numbera sort of cheerful inefficiency which protects him better than the reputation for having a violent temper.”
—Crystal Eastman (18811928)
“We are things of dry hours and the involuntary plan,
Grayed in, and gray. Dream makes a giddy sound, not strong
Like rent, feeding a wife, satisfying a man.”
—Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)
“I sometimes have the sense that I live my life as a writer with my nose pressed against the wide, shiny plate glass window of the mainstream culture. The world seems full of straight, large-circulation, slick periodicals which wouldnt think of reviewing my book and bookstores which will never order it.”
—Jan Clausen (b. 1943)