Playwrights have long considered the Pulitzer to be
the kiss of death, based on Edward Albee's failure to
garner it with _Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?_
Candice
He's not the kind of wheel
You fall asleep at
(Tom Waits)
--- Kenneth Wolman <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Jon Corelis wrote:
> >
> > "The Nobel is like an invitation to one's own
> funeral. No one has
> > ever done anything after getting it."
> >
> > --
> T. S. Eliot
> I believe it was the hardly-great novelist Sinclair
> Lewis who said "This
> [the Nobel] will be the death of me. I can't live
> up to it."
>
> He was right.
>
> ken
>
> --
> --------------------
> Ken Wolman rainermaria.typepad.com
>
> "For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon
> me, and that which I
> was afraid of is come unto me. I was not in safety,
> neither had I
> rest, neither was I quiet; yet trouble came."
>
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