Top 5 Quotes & Sayings by Benjamin Moser

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American writer Benjamin Moser.
Last updated on November 25, 2024.
Benjamin Moser

Benjamin Moser is an American writer and translator. He received the Pulitzer Prize for his biography of Susan Sontag, titled Sontag: Her Life and Work.

I studied mathematics which is the madness of reason.
There is no right to punish. There is only the power to punish,' she wrote. 'A man is punished for his crime because the State is stronger than he; the great crime of War is not punished because beyond the individual there is mankind, and beyond mankind there is nothing at all.
Vocation is different from talent. One can have vocation and not have talent; one can be called and not know how to go. — © Benjamin Moser
Vocation is different from talent. One can have vocation and not have talent; one can be called and not know how to go.
Like her friend and admirer Clarice Lispector, Hilda Hilst was a passionate explorer of the sacred and the profane, the pure and the obscene, and shows, in this discomfiting, hypnotic work, just how rarely those categories are what they seem. The translation is excellent - what a rare relief.
It’s one thing if everyone wears the same shoes or drinks the same soda. But the world of literature is the last place in which globalization should mean homogeneity.
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