Richard McKenna
Richard McKenna
Richard Milton McKennawas an American sailor and fiction writer...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth9 May 1913
CountryUnited States of America
afraid banks citizen create credit destroy direct hands hold hollow nation ordinary policy
I am afraid that the ordinary citizen will not like to be told that the banks can and do create and destroy money. And they who control the credit of a nation direct the policy of governments, and hold in the hollow of their hands the destiny of the people.
guy looked struck
That's how it struck me, first day or two in isolation. I'd looked around for old shipmates, like a guy does, but didn't see any.
art responsibility men
Each man of us is living his own personal work of art, and cannot evade artistic responsibility for his product.
machines way taking-things-for-granted
The way to get killed around machinery was to take things for granted.
book dies
You can't just plain die. You got to do it by the book.
book thinking rocks
My early book learning came to me as naturally as the seasons in … the little town in which I grew up. … Quite early I began to find a special charm in an unpeopled world … of lava rock and sagebrush desert. … I was often more purely happy at such times than I think I have ever been since.
weak
Being dead is being weak and walled off.