Ted Morgan Quotes (13 quotations)
1. [It is a story] to satisfy the expectations of the average man, who wants awful things to happen to overprominent people. - Ted Morgan
2. A round ball of a man with protruding lower lip and seal-colored eyes, [he] spun like a top from continent to continent, jabbing a pudgy forefinger at everything that stood in his way. - Ted Morgan
3. A writer is always going to betray somebody. If you're going to be honest with your subject, you can't be genteel. - Ted Morgan
4. He saw them bearing not frankincense and myrrh but wormwood and hemlock. - Ted Morgan
5. He seemed embalmed in hatred. - Ted Morgan
6. Howard Hughes was able to afford the luxury of madness, like a man who not only thinks he is Napoleon but hires an army to prove it. - Ted Morgan
7. In America, the land of the permanent revolution, ulcers and cancer often become, for the men at the top, the contemporary equivalent of the guillotine. - Ted Morgan
8. It is less artificial than his other comedies. The epigrams do not seem to have been added on like candied cherries on a cake. - Ted Morgan
9. The elective system offered a bewildering freedom of choice, leaving some graduates with the impression that they had nibbled at dozens of canapes of knowledge and never had their fill. - Ted Morgan
10. The Sitwells were less a family than a literary cartel with a gift for self-propagation. - Ted Morgan
11. The stammer was a way of telling the world that he was not like others, a way of expressing his singularity. - Ted Morgan
12. The stammerer is ambivalent about communicating with others-he desperately wants to communicate, but is afraid of revealing himself. - Ted Morgan
13. When I slept, armies of footnotes marched across my dreams in close-order drill. - Ted Morgan
2. A round ball of a man with protruding lower lip and seal-colored eyes, [he] spun like a top from continent to continent, jabbing a pudgy forefinger at everything that stood in his way. - Ted Morgan
3. A writer is always going to betray somebody. If you're going to be honest with your subject, you can't be genteel. - Ted Morgan
4. He saw them bearing not frankincense and myrrh but wormwood and hemlock. - Ted Morgan
5. He seemed embalmed in hatred. - Ted Morgan
6. Howard Hughes was able to afford the luxury of madness, like a man who not only thinks he is Napoleon but hires an army to prove it. - Ted Morgan
7. In America, the land of the permanent revolution, ulcers and cancer often become, for the men at the top, the contemporary equivalent of the guillotine. - Ted Morgan
8. It is less artificial than his other comedies. The epigrams do not seem to have been added on like candied cherries on a cake. - Ted Morgan
9. The elective system offered a bewildering freedom of choice, leaving some graduates with the impression that they had nibbled at dozens of canapes of knowledge and never had their fill. - Ted Morgan
10. The Sitwells were less a family than a literary cartel with a gift for self-propagation. - Ted Morgan
11. The stammer was a way of telling the world that he was not like others, a way of expressing his singularity. - Ted Morgan
12. The stammerer is ambivalent about communicating with others-he desperately wants to communicate, but is afraid of revealing himself. - Ted Morgan
13. When I slept, armies of footnotes marched across my dreams in close-order drill. - Ted Morgan
