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To forgive is wisdom, to forget is genius.
All art is bad, but modern art is the worst.
The principal fact of life is the free mind.
A perfect God is the creation of a conceited man
Something you have to make...It's all work, work.
It was as dark as the inside of a cabinet minister.
What I say to an artist is, 'When you can't paint - paint.
The only good government... Is a bad one in a hell of a fright.
Life would die without poets, and democracy must have its spellbinders.
When a woman gets the idea of justice, there's no teaching her any sense.
The concept, the label, is perpetually hiding from us all the nature of the real.
Of all things I find most unbearable is the injustice of one generation to another.
A novel should be an experience and convey an emotional truth rather than arguments.
An old mans memories, like his bones, grow sharp with age and show their true shapes.
A perpetually new and lively world, but a dangerous one, full of tragedy and injustice.
Reality is a narrow little house which becomes a prison to those who can't get out of it.
For the essential thing about the work of art is that it is work, and very hard work too.
Where can one find a profounder desolation than in the poor child who has lost its mother?
What is it in the actor, the stage, that casts so powerful a spell on the young imagination?
Politics is like navigation in a sea without charts, and wise men live the lives of pilgrims.
Remember I'm an artist. And you know what that means in a court of law. Next worst to an actress
Religion is organized to satisfy and guide the soul - politics does the same thing for the body.
Remember I'm an artist. And you know what that means in a court of law. Next worst to an actress.
Religion is organized to satisfy and guide the soul -- politics does the same thing for the body.
To forgive is wisdom, to forget is genius. And easier. Because it's true. It's a new world every heart beat.
Sara could commit adultery at one end and weep for her sins at the other, and enjoy both operations at once.
The most effective teacher will always be biased, for the chief force in teaching is confidence and enthusiasm.
I write the big scenes first, that is, the scenes that carry the meaning of the book, the emotional experience.
Love doesn't grow on trees like apples in Eden - it's something you have to make. And you must use your imagination too.
The will is never free - it is always attached to an object, a purpose. It is simply the engine in the car - it can't steer
The will is never free - it is always attached to an object, a purpose. It is simply the engine in the car - it can't steer.
No one can estimate the power of authority among poor and uneducated people in a world whose problems confuse even the wisest.
People don't use their eyes. They never see a bird, they see a sparrow. They never see a tree, they see a birch. They see concepts.
No honest hardworking official likes to see good money disappearing into the hands of the Treasury at the end of the financial year.
I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is coming to give it back, I have no right to complain.
A world in everlasting conflict between the new idea and the old allegiances, new arts and new inventions against the old establishment.
It is a tragedy of the world that no one knows what he doesn't know - the less a man knows, the more sure it is that he knows everything.
It is the tragedy of the world that no one knows what he doesn't know - and the less a man knows, the more sure he is that he knows everything.
I had come at last and my heart was beating again strongly to a heart that could not know despair because it forgot itself in the duty of its love.
No doubt any connoisseur, any collector, some bored old millionaire when he shows off his treasures, is seeking in your praise the resurrection and the life.
For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity.
Old men when they begin to hear the last trumpet, on the morning breeze, often have a kind of absent-minded smile; like people listening. And their smiles are just politeness.
Throughout the play everything possible was done to show the virtue, innocence and helplessness of the poor, and the abandoned cruelty, the heartless self-indulgence of the rich.
God is a character, a real and consistent being, or He is nothing. If God did a miracle He would deny His own nature and the universe would simply blow up, vanish, become nothing.
It is sometimes said that toleration should be refused to the intolerant. In practice this would destroy it... The only remedy for dogmatism and lies is toleration and the greatest possible liberty of expression.
I had from childhood not only the experience of love and truth common to all family life, but the idea of them embodied in the person of Jesus, a picture always present to our imagination as well as our feelings.
The fear of hell, the punishment of sin, how the modern parent revolts from such teaching. Yet I will assert that far from doing us children harm, it was a sure foundation to the world of our confidence, a master girder in our palace of delight.
A foul-mouthed oaf, a drunken laborer lying in a drain, a beaten wife with blackened eyes and torn clothes, cannot be made romantic to a child who sees how other children suffer from bad-tempered parents, from drunken fathers to termagant mothers.
Plantie is a very strong Protestant, that is to say, he's against all churches, especially the Protestant: and he thinks a lot of Buddha, Karma and Confucius. He is also a bit of an anarchist and three or four years ago he took up Einstein and vitamins.
Funeral expenses are the curse of the poor everywhere on earth, they are wasteful and unnecessary, they are the price of foolish ostentation and a display that is less an evidence of grief than a vulgar travesty of those pompous obsequies where no grief is.