Tag Archives: Quotes
The difficulties of reading Russian novels in Ernesto Sabato’s The Tunnel
I’ve long since overcome my reluctance to read Russian novels, but I’ll admit that there was a time when they seemed impenetrable. At best, I’d have to draw up a list of characters in order to keep all the names … Continue reading
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Zweig on Casanova
“No real man, therefore, I repeat, can read Casanova’s memoirs in certain moods without feeling envious, without feeling himself to be a bungler as compared with this master of the art of life. Often–again and again and again–one would rather … Continue reading
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Quote-George Bernard Shaw
“I had no taste for what is called popular art, no respect for popular morality, no belief in popular religion, no admiration for popular heroics.” – George Bernard Shaw
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Quote-H.G.Wells
“Most people seem to live ‘in character.’ They have a beginning, a middle and an end….. They have a class, they have a place, they know what is becoming in them and what is due to them. But there is … Continue reading
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Quote-Russell Banks
“Character is fate, which suggest that if a man can know and then to some degree control his character, he can know and to the same degree control his fate.” Sarah Cole: A Type of Love Story from Success Stories … Continue reading
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Quote-Samuel Johnson
“In the decline of life, shame and grief are of short duration; whether it be that we bear easily what we have borne long, or that finding ourselves in age less regarded, we less regard others; or that we look … Continue reading
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Quote-Samuel Butler
“I suppose that a prig with more money than brains was much the same sixty or seventy years ago as he is now.” from The Way of All Flesh by Samuel Butler
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Quote-Samuel Johnson
“No form of government has yet been discovered by which cruelty can be wholly prevented. Subordination supposes power on one part and subjection on the other, and if power be in the hands of men, it will sometimes be abused.” … Continue reading
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Quote-George Bernard Shaw
“Every despot must have one disloyal subject to keep him sane.” George Bernard Shaw
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Quote-Samuel Johnson
“What cannot be repaired is not to be regretted.” from Rasselas by Samuel Johnson
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