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- Drama
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- Nov 07, 2020
The drama may be called that part of theatrical art which lends itself most readily to intellectual discussion: what is left is theater.
- Fanaticism
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fanaticism is overcompensation for doubt.
- Expects
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- Nov 07, 2020
Only a fool expects to be happy all the time.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
Do not suppose, however, that I intend to urge a diet of classics on anybody. I have seen such diets at work. I have known people who have actually read all, or almost all, the guaranteed Hundred Best Books. God save us from reading nothing but the best.
- Lost
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- Nov 07, 2020
We wanted to meet him, for though we were neither of us naive people we had not wholly lost our belief that it is delightful to meet artists who have given us pleasure.
- Loved
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never heard of anyone who was really literate or who ever really loved books who wanted to suppress any of them.
- Curious
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- Nov 07, 2020
Literary critics, however, frequently suffer from a curious belief that every author longs to extend the boundaries of literary art, wants to explore new dimensions of the human spirit, and if he doesn't, he should be ashamed of himself.
- Ideas
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do not 'get' ideas; ideas get me.
- Nov 07, 2020
The quality of what is said inevitably influences the way in which it is said, however inexperienced the writer.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
The great book for you is the book that has the most to say to you at the moment when you are reading. I do not mean the book that is most instructive, but the book that feeds your spirit. And that depends on your age, your experience, your psychological and spiritual need.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
May I make a suggestion, hoping it is not an impertinence? Write it down: write down what you feel. It is sometimes a wonderful help in misery.
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020
The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealised past.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.
- Fake
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nothing is so easy to fake as the inner vision.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Authors like cats because they are such quiet, lovable, wise creatures, and cats like authors for the same reasons.
- Genial
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- Nov 07, 2020
The greatest gift that Oxford gives her sons is, I truly believe, a genial irreverence toward learning, and from that irreverence love may spring.
- Opera
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- Nov 07, 2020
A Librettist is a mere drudge in the world of opera.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Extraordinary people survive under the most terrible circumstances and they become more extraordinary because of it.
- Lucky
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- Nov 07, 2020
Tristan and Isolde were lucky to die when they did. They'd have been sick of all that rubbish in a year.
- Lies
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- Nov 07, 2020
The love of truth lies at the root of much humor.
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.
- Place
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- Nov 07, 2020
Canada is not really a place where you are encouraged to have large spiritual adventures.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
The most original thing a writer can do is write like himself. It is also his most difficult task.
- Dope
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- Nov 07, 2020
To be a book-collector is to combine the worst characteristics of a dope fiend with those of a miser.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every man is wise when attacked by a mad dog; fewer when pursued by a mad woman; only the wisest survive when attacked by a mad notion.
- Desire
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- Nov 07, 2020