Peter S. Prescott Quotes

• Let’s hope the institution of marriage survives its detractors, for without it there would be no more adultery and without adultery two thirds of our novelists would stand in line for unemployment checks.

  Peter S. Prescott

  Writing, Two, Novelists

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• Many books today suggest that the mass of women lead lives of noisy desperation.

  Peter S. Prescott

  Book, Today, Desperation

  Peter S. Prescott (1986). “Never in Doubt: Critical Essays on American Books, 1972-1985”

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• My advice is to run while you can.

  Peter S. Prescott

  Running, Advice

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• Two things a novelist can do with a hat: Talk through it or pull a rabbit from it.

  Peter S. Prescott

  Two, Novelists, Rabbits

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• Sociologists are those academic accountants who think that truth can be shaken from an abacus.

  Peter S. Prescott

  Thinking, Academic, Abacus

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