Meandering on . . .

Today is the birthday of Herman Wouk (born May 27, 1915), author. He received a Pulitzer Prize for his 1951 novel, The Caine Mutiny.

"The imaginative artist willy-nilly influences his time. If he understands his responsibility and acts on it—taking the art seriously always, himself never quite—he can make a contribution equal to, if different from, that of the scientist, the politician, and the jurist. The anarchic artist so much in vogue now—asserting with vehemence and violence that he writes only for himself, grubbing in the worst seams of life—can do damage. But he can also be so useful in breaking up obsolete molds, exposing shams, and crying out the truth, that the broadest freedom of art seems to me necessary to a country worth living in." - Herman Wouk

"Illusion is an anodyne, bred by the gap between wish and reality." - Herman Wouk

"Some people think that all the equipment you need to discuss religion is a mouth." - Herman Wouk

"Write a page a day. It will add up." - Herman Wouk

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