“When people say there is too much violence in [my books], what they are saying is there is too much reality in life.”

New York Times (27 July 1980)

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American author 1938

Megan McCafferty (1973) American novelist

Source: Charmed Thirds

“Roberto Clemente doesn't care too much for New York. Says there are too many people and everybody is in too much of a hurry. He had one ride on the subway with Felipe Montemayor as his guide and they got lost.”

Roberto Clemente (1934–1972) Puerto Rican baseball player

As paraphrased in "The Scoreboard: Thursday" https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=b0EqAAAAIBAJ&sjid=000EAAAAIBAJ&pg=4340%2C3027303 by Les Biederman, in The Pittsburgh Press (Saturday, June 11, 1955), p. 6 <br class="br">Other, <big><big>1950s</big></big>, <big>1955</big>

“A man can never have too much red wine, too many books, or too much ammunition”

Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936) English short-story writer, poet, and novelist

“When people thank and tell you how much you've helped them, what they say has nothing to do with you. This is just their way of expressing joy in their own experience. Remember this, too, when people complain or criticize.”

Ken McLeod (1948) Canadian lama

Wash Your Own Dishes http://musingsbyken.blogspot.com/2007/09/on-teaching.html. Musings Blog http://musingsbyken.blogspot.com. (2007-09-30). (Topic: Life)

“Let the rabbit of free enterprise out of its velveteen bag and too many people would have to be fired, too much idiocy exposed to the light of judgment or ridicule, too much vanity sacrificed to the fires of efficiency. Such a catastrophe obviously would threaten the American way of life, to say nothing of the belief in free markets.”

Lewis H. Lapham (1935) American journalist

Source: Money And Class In America (1989), Chapter 9, Coined Souls, p. 232

“I try, in my life, to follow my heart. I know what it feels like to do things that are soul-decaying. A large aspect of life in Hollywood, in a stereotypic way, I find unbelievably soul-decaying. And I choose, albeit frustratingly to other people in my life, not to expose myself too much to too much of that.”

Gillian Anderson (1968) American-British film, television and theatre actress, activist and writer

Hal Boedeker (January 21, 2006) "Agent of Change - Gillian Anderson , who found fulfilling work in England after `The X-Files,' returns to TV in a PBS miniseries", The Orlando Sentinel, p. E1.
2000s

“Too much reality can be a dazzle, a surfeit;
Too close immediacy an exhaustion”

Theodore Roethke book The Far Field

"The Abyss"
The Far Field (1964)