Art distills sensation and embodies it with enhanced meaning in a memorable form - or else it is not art.
From Jacques Barzun
The test and the use of man's education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of his mind.
Only a great mind that is overthrown yields tragedy.
In any assembly the simplest way to stop transacting business and split the ranks is to appeal to a principle.
The intellectuals' chief cause of anguish are one another's works.
Of course, clothing fashions have always been impractical, except in Tahiti.
If civilization has risen from the Stone Age, it can rise again from the Wastepaper Age.
The danger that may really threaten (crime fiction) is that soon there will be more writers than readers.
An artist has every right - one may even say a duty - to exhibit his productions as prominently as he can.
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.
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