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The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
Source: On Photography, The...
I was the toast of two continents: Greenland and Australia.
Source: In Webster's...
. . . as for helping me in the outside world, the Convent taught me only that if you spit on a pencil eraser, it will...
The discovery of the good taste of bad taste can be very liberating. The man who insists on high and serious...
The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of subjects --making it...
Unfortunately, moral beauty in art -- like physical beauty in a person -- is extremely perishable. It is nowhere so...
The freakish is no longer a private zone, difficult of access. People who are bizarre, in sexual disgrace, emotionally...
'House Beautiful' is the play lousy.
Source: Theater review.
-- Dorothy Parker,...
Truth is eternal, knowledge is changeable. It is disastrous to confuse them.
From politics, it was an easy step to silence.
Source: In Webster's Electronic...
But Shakespeare one gets acquainted with without knowing how. It is a part of an Englishman's constitution. His...
There is a certain age at which a child looks at you in all earnestness and delivers a long, pleased speech in all the...
The dedicated life is worth living. You must give with your whole heart.
Source:...
One man's folly is often another man's wife.
Source: Reflections of a Bachelor Girl...
The contemporary thing in art and literature is the thing which doesn't make enough difference to the people of that...
You have delighted us long enough.
Source: Pride and Prejudice, Ch. 18
-- Jane...
When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves, whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation and...
In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness.
We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.
Source: In The Ultimate...
Only in growth, reform, and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found.