If it were possible to talk to the unborn, one could never explain to them how it feels to be alive, for life is washed in the speechless real |
In any assembly the simplest way to stop the transacting of business and split the ranks is to appeal to a principle. |
In producers, loafing is productive; and no creator, of whatever magnitude, has ever been able to skip that stage, any more than a mother can skip gestation. |
In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day's work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years. |
In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day's work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years. |
It seems a long time since the morning mail could be called correspondence. |
It seems a long time since the morning mail could be called correspondence. |
Let us face a pluralistic world in which there are no universal churches, no single remedy for all diseases, no one way to teach or write or sing, no magic diet, no world poets, and no chosen races, but only the wretched and wonderfully diversified h |
Music is intended and designed for sentient beings that have hopes and purposes and emotions. |
Of course, clothing fashions have always been impractical, except in Tahiti |
Only a great mind that is overthrown yields tragedy. |
Political correctness does not legislate tolerance; it only organizes hatred |
Since it is seldom clear whether intellectual activity denotes a superior mode of being or a vital deficiency, opinion swings between considering intellect a privilege and seeing it as a handicap |
Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition. |
The danger that may really threaten (crime fiction) is that soon there will be more writers than readers |