“...in the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling.”Tagged: Day and Night, Morning, Evening, Life, meaning in life
“Argument is to me the air I breathe. Given any proposition, I cannot help believing the other side and defending it.”Tagged: argument, Proposition, defense, Debate
“From the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional. If they were not, the world would be at a stand-still and death would speedily ensue. It is one of the tamest of platitudes but it is always introduced by a flourish of trumpets.”Tagged: Progress, Age, World, Death, Age Gap
“A beauty is not suddenly in a circle. It comes with rapture. A great deal of beauty is rapture. A circle is a necessity. Otherwise you would see no one. We each have our circle.”Tagged: beauty, Rapture
“Let me recite what history teaches. History teaches.”Tagged: History, Past, Teach, Lessons, History Teaches
“One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.”Tagged: difference, Change, Pleasure
“When I sleep I sleep and do not dream because it is as well that I am what I seem when I am in my bed and dream.”Tagged: Sleep, Dream, Dreaming
“Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.”Tagged: information, Common Sense
“Disillusionment in living is finding that no one can really ever be agreeing with you completely in anything.”Tagged: Disillusionment, Living, Understanding, agreement
“I am writing for myself and strangers. This is the only way that I can do it. Everybody is a real one to me, everybody is like some one else too to me. No one of them that I know can want to know it and so I write for myself and strangers.”Tagged: Writing, Strangers
“No one is ahead of his time, it is only that the particular variety of creating his time is the one that his contemporaries who are also creating their own time refuse to accept... For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts. In the history of the…”Tagged: Time, Creativity, Refusal, Acceptance, History
“A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.”Tagged: writer, Eyes, paint, Ears
“Human beings are interested in two things. They are interested in the reality and interested in telling about it.”Tagged: human beings, Interest, Reality, Story
“I like a thing simple but it must be simple through complication. Everything must come into your scheme, otherwise you cannot achieve real simplicity.”Tagged: Simplicity, Complication, Achieving Simplicity
“Nothing could bother me more than the way a thing goes dead once it has been said”Tagged: Words, Thing, dead
“Adventure is making the distant approach nearer but romance is having what is where it is which is not where you are stay where it is.”Tagged: Adventure, romance
“It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.”Tagged: Time, Genius, Knowledge, Doing Nothing
“Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.”Tagged: Everybody, Careful, Occupied, Fail