• Society

  A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.

  4.0 · 10 votes · 30 reads

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• Society

  All great art is born of the metropolis.

  3.9 · 50 votes · 97 reads

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• Feelings

  All my life I believed I knew something. But then one strange day came when I realized that I knew nothing, yes, I knew nothing. And so words became void of meaning. I have arrived too late at ultimate uncertainty.

  3.6 · 7 votes · 185 reads

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• Feelings

  As a bathtub lined with white porcelain, when the hot water gives out or goes tepid, so is the slow cooling of our chivalrous passion, o my much praised but-not-altogether-satisfactory lady.

  4.7 · 64 votes · 85 reads

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• Art and Culture

  Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear.

  4.4 · 10 votes · 79 reads

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• Art and Culture

  Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.

  4.0 · 22 votes · 5 reads

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• Art and Culture

  I consider criticism merely a preliminary excitement, a statement of things a Writerhas to clear up in his own head sometime or other, probably antecedent to writing; of no value unless it come to fruit in the created work later.

  4.1 · 63 votes · 128 reads

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• Defects

  I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.

  4.3 · 7 votes · 80 reads

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• Art and Culture

  If a nation's literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.

  4.2 · 30 votes · 31 reads

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• Society

  In our time, the curse is monetary illiteracy, just as inability to read plain print was the curse of earlier centuries.

  4.4 · 47 votes · 101 reads

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• Virtues

  It is more than likely that the brain itself is, in origin and development, only a sort of great clot of genital fluid held in suspense or reserved. This hypothesis would explain the enormous content of the brain as a maker or presenter of images.

  4.2 · 41 votes · 138 reads

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• Society

  It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the artist part of him, than in him. After which let them take tea together three times a week.

  3.5 · 13 votes · 111 reads

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• Art and Culture

  Literature does not exist in a vacuum. Writers as such have a definite social function exactly proportional to their ability as writers. This is their main use.

  4.7 · 29 votes · 27 reads

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• Art and Culture

  Literature is news that stays news.

  3.7 · 32 votes · 164 reads

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• Society

  Mass ought to be in Latin, unless you could do it in Greek or Chinese. In fact, any abracadabra that no bloody member of the public or half-educated ape of a clargimint could think he understood.

  3.9 · 33 votes · 53 reads

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• Various

  No good poetry is ever written in a manner twenty years old, for to write in such a manner shows conclusively that the Writerthinks from books, convention and cliché, not from real life.

  5.0 · 34 votes · 58 reads

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• Art and Culture

  No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.

  4.8 · 6 votes · 55 reads

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• Art and Culture

  Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.

  3.7 · 60 votes · 90 reads

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• Feelings

  One measure of a civilization, either of an age or of a single individual, is what that age or person really wishes to do. A man's hope measures his civilization. The attainability of the hope measures, or may measure, the civilization of his nation and t

  4.7 · 31 votes · 33 reads

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• Thought and Reason

  People find ideas a bore because they do not distinguish between live ones and stuffed ones on a shelf.

  4.7 · 62 votes · 194 reads

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• Art and Culture

  Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.

  3.1 · 60 votes · 54 reads

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• Art and Culture

  Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing. The rest is mere sheep-herding.

  3.4 · 48 votes · 43 reads

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• Society

  Religion, oh, just another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art.

  4.8 · 37 votes · 167 reads

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• Society

  The act of bell ringing is symbolic of all proselytizing religions. It implies the pointless interference with the quiet of other people.

  3.2 · 25 votes · 18 reads

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• Art and Culture

  The art of letters will come to an end before A.D. 2000. I shall survive as a curiosity.

  3.1 · 18 votes · 81 reads

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• Art and Culture

  The author's conviction on this day of New Year is that music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance; that poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music; but this must not be taken as implying that all good music is dance musi

  4.8 · 7 votes · 17 reads

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• Nature

  The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

  5.0 · 47 votes · 20 reads

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• Virtues

  The intellect is a very nice whirligig toy, but how people take it seriously is more than I can understand.

  3.0 · 9 votes · 12 reads

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• Virtues

  The only chance for victory over the brainwash is the right of every man to have his ideas judged one at a time. You never get clarity as long as you have these packaged words, as long as a word is used by twenty-five people in twenty-five different ways.

  3.5 · 42 votes · 22 reads

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• Government and Politics

  The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.

  3.8 · 59 votes · 45 reads

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• Nature

  There are few things more difficult than to appraise the work of a man suddenly dead in his youth; to disentangle ''promise'' from achievement; to save him from that sentimentalizing which confuses the tragedy of the interruption with the merit of the wor

  3.5 · 9 votes · 81 reads

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• Art and Culture

  There once was a brainy baboon who always breathed down a bassoon for he said, ''It appears that in billions of years I shall certainly hit on a tune.''

  4.9 · 16 votes · 40 reads

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• Government and Politics

  Wars are made to make debt.

  3.1 · 34 votes · 116 reads

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• Time

  We do NOT know the past in chronological sequence. It may be convenient to lay it out anesthetized on the table with dates pasted on here and there, but what we know we know by ripples and spirals eddying out from us and from our own time.

  4.1 · 8 votes · 173 reads

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• Art and Culture

  With one day's reading a man may have the key in his hands.

  4.7 · 52 votes · 25 reads

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• Literature8 of their quotes
• Religion4 of their quotes
• Writers2 of their quotes
• Music2 of their quotes
• Intelligence2 of their quotes
• War2 of their quotes