So much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don’t even know that fire is hot.
“light up a lifetime” conveys the idea that hope can have a lasting, life-altering impact.
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So much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don’t even know that fire is hot.
You work your butt off and somebody says you can’t have your record played because it offends them. Tyrants are made of such stuff.
Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.
Will the people in the cheaper seats clap your hands? And the rest of you, if you’ll just rattle your jewelry.
There have been in this century only one great man and one great thing: Napoleon and liberty. For want of the great man, let us have the great thing.
And I believe that the best learning process of any kind of craft is just to look at the work of others.
Well, we all are what we are, I guess you might say by an accident of birth.
But I now think what I was doing, in a completely unconscious way, was getting off the turf where my husband and I might be rivals. We were both working in fiction… so I look back and I see that I consciously vacated the contested ground.
Writing a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay.
Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.
Thus it is that in war the victorious strategist only seeks battle after the victory has been won, whereas he who is destined to defeat first fights and afterwards looks for victory.
If I err in belief that the souls of men are immortal, I gladly err, nor do I wish this error which gives me pleasure to be wrested from me while I live.
To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.
The Artist is he who detects and applies the law from observation of the works of Genius, whether of man or Nature. The Artisan is he who merely applies the rules which others have detected.
The beautiful seems right by force of beauty, and the feeble wrong because of weakness.
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In other words, New York has gone all suburban and bourgeois on us.