Journalism: an ability to meet the challenge of filling the space.
From Rebecca West
Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul.
Everyone realizes that one can believe little of what people say about each other. But it is not so widely realized that even less can one trust what people say about themselves.
It is always one's virtues and not one's vices that precipitate one into disaster.
Nobody likes having salt rubbed into their wounds, even if it is the salt of the earth.
Great music is in a sense serene; it is certain of the values it asserts.
Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy; but after a war it seems more like astrology.
I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute.
The trouble about man is twofold. He cannot learn truths which are too complicated; he forgets truths which are too simple.
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