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RIVALRIES AND INSPIRATIONS
Lord Byron vs. John Keats
Text: “Here are Johnny Keats’ piss-a-bed poetry . . . There is such a trash of Keats and the like on my tables that I am ashamed to look at them . . . No more Keats, I entreat, flay him alive; if some of you don’t, I must skin him myself. There is no bearing the drivelling idiotism of the maniken.” — Lord Byron.
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Ernest Hemingway vs. William Faulkner vs. Carson McCullers
Text: Hemingway: “Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words?”
Faulkner: “[Hemingway] has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.”
McCullers: “I have more to say than Hemingway, and God knows I say it better than Faulkner.”
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Edgar Allan Poe vs. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Text: Poe: “There are other plagiarisms of Mr. Longfellow which we might easily expose; but we have said enough . . . the author of ‘Outre Mer,’ is not only a servile imitator, but a most insolent literary thief.”
Longfellow: “The harshness of his criticisms, I have never attributed to anything but the irritation of a sensitive nature, chafed by some indefinite sense of wrong.”
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Oscar Wilde vs. James McNeill Whistler
Text: Wilde: “Punch is too ridiculous. When you and I are together, we never talk about anything except ourselves.”
Whistler: “No, no, Oscar, you forget. When you and I are together, we never talk about anything except me.”
Wilde: “It is true, Jimmy, we were talking about you, but I was thinking of myself.”
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Richard Wright and H.L. Mencken
Text: “I pictured [H.L. Mencken] as a raging demon, slashing with his pen, consumed with hate, denouncing everything American, extolling everything European or German, laughing at the weaknesses of people, mocking God, authority . . . Could words be weapons? Well, yes, for here they were. Then, maybe, perhaps, I could use them as a weapon?” — Richard Wright