“The manuscript lay like a dust-rag on his desk, and Eitel found, as he had found before, that the difficulty of art was that it forced a man back on his life, and each time the task was more difficult and distasteful.”

Source: Barbary Shore (1951), Ch. 14

Adopted from Wikiquote. Last update June 3, 2021. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "The manuscript lay like a dust-rag on his desk, and Eitel found, as he had found before, that the difficulty of art was…" by Norman Mailer?
Norman Mailer photo
Norman Mailer 165
American novelist, journalist, essayist, playwright, film m… 1923–2007

Related quotes

“And indeed, no man has found his religion until he has found that for which he must sell his goods and his life.”

William Ernest Hocking (1873–1966) American philosopher

Source: The Meaning of God in Human Experience (1912), Ch. XVI : The Original Sources of the Knowledge of God, p. 237.

Albert Schweitzer photo
Brandon Sanderson photo
Homér photo

“He in the turning dust lay
mightily in his might, his horsemanship all forgotten.”

XVI. 775–776 (tr. R. Lattimore).
Iliad (c. 750 BC)

Robert Browning photo

“Have you found your life distasteful?
My life did and does smack sweet.”

Robert Browning (1812–1889) English poet and playwright of the Victorian Era

"At the 'Mermaid'"(1876) <!-- line 72 - 80 -->
Context: Have you found your life distasteful?
My life did and does smack sweet.
Was your youth of pleasure wasteful?
Mine I save and hold complete.
Do your joys with age diminish?
When mine fail me, I'll complain.
Must in death your daylight finish?
My sun sets to rise again.

Orson Scott Card photo
Lois McMaster Bujold photo
Nicholas Sparks photo
Paul LePage photo

“There's the all mighty powerful ones like Mr. Khan — which is a con artist himself, and he uses the death of his son, who's an American soldier, which we respect and honor, and he uses that to go after Trump, which I found very distasteful.”

Paul LePage (1948) American businessman, Republican Party politician, and the 74th Governor of Maine

In an interview with Boston radio host Howie Carr. http://mpbn.net/post/lepage-calls-father-slain-muslim-american-soldier-con-artist#stream/0 (August 25, 2016)

Ludwig Wittgenstein photo

Related topics