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Yes, translation is by definition an inadequate substitute for being able to read a masterpiece in the original.
That shoreline where the island of knowing meets the unfathomable sea of our own being is the landscape of myth.
People first concern themselves with meeting their basic needs; only afterwards, do they pursue any higher needs.
All wrongfully convicted people are portrayed as monsters. But there's a special kind of monster that is a woman.
Nothing so soothes our vanity as a display of greater vanity in others; it make us vain, in fact, of our modesty.
Giving in to your ego is one of the oldest stories in the showbiz book. But so is figuring out how to stay vivid.
Artists don't often know much about writing... but they don't bray so much about writing as writers do about art.
I can remember - barely - when Elton John was still a good songwriter, or at least capable of writing good songs.
The male is colored much more gorgeously than the female so that he can be shot and made into feather embroidery.
It's easy to see the faults in people I know; it's hardest to see the good. Especially when the good isn't there.
Mrs. Patrick Cambell is an aged British battleship sinking rapidly and firing every available gun on her rescuers.
I love playing video games, but I'm regularly disappointed in the limited and limiting ways women are represented.
A child must learn early to believe that she is somebody worthwhile, and that she can do many praiseworthy things.
We must select the illusion which appeals to our temperament, and embrace it with passion, if we want to be happy.
Nothing so soothes our vanity as a display of greater vanity in others; it makes us vain, in fact, of our modesty.
Noir has always shown that greed and chaos are as close as the company we work for or the politicians we vote for.
At the age of 14, I ran away from home for four days and hitchhiked around western Pennsylvania and southern Ohio.
Frogs will eat red-flannel worms fed to them by biologists; this proves a great deal about both parties concerned.
One of the most radical things you can do, is to actually believe women when they tell you about their experiences.
Reinvent your business constantly. The end goal may be the same, but the tools and methods are constantly evolving.
A good many inconveniences attend playgoing in any large city, but the greatest of them is usually the play itself.
I don't really sit at the computer from scratch. I prefer to get my ideas in my fingers and I write longhand first.
'The Admirable Crichton' is probably Barrie's most famous work after 'Peter Pan', nearly a pendant to that classic.
Limitations, be they practical or arbitrary, force artists to dig more deeply instead of settling for easy answers.
For the integrated human being there is no past: there is only the continual transformation of original experience.
I have a few close friends with whom I can practice speaking Italian, but I mostly maintain fluency through reading.
Drop the last year into the silent limbo of the past. Let it go, for it was imperfect, and thank God that it can go.
Show me a congenital eavesdropper with the instincts of a Peeping Tom and I will show you the making of a dramatist.
The world is a library of strange and wonderful books, and sometimes we just need to go prowling through the stacks.
Any man's death diminishes us, but when an artist passes away, we lose not just an island but an entire archipelago.
Once upon a time, I sat in my mother's lap as she turned the pages of Golden Books, and I gradually learned to read.
A wise person speaks carefully and with truth, for every word tht passes between one's teeth is meant for something.
I'm someone who believes the truth needs to be heard. And if I'm empowered with the truth, I'm not going to shut up.
Jimmy Kimmel still comes across like a guy who crashed a party and got caught at it, yet adamantly refuses to leave.
Every intellectual product must be judged from the point of view of the age and the people in which it was produced.
If a cat does something, we call it instinct; if we do the same thing, for the same reason, we call it intelligence.
It is because of his brain that he [modern man] has risen above the animals. Guess which animals he has risen above.
The more chaos there is, the more science holds on to abstract systems of control, and the more chaos is engendered.
The civilized are those who get more out of life than the uncivilized, and for this we are not likely to be forgiven.
Among the classic tastes: bread sauce, Nuits St Georges Les Perdrix 1962, Worcestershire sauce, Toblerone and Bovril.
With intellectuals, moral thought is often less a tonic that quickens ethical action than a narcotic that deadens it.
Giving full rein to one's cynicism as one goes along produces a normal outlet and maintains an emotional equilibrium.
Everybody in America was talking about TV early in 1949, though comparatively few Americans owned a set of their own.
There wasn't a lot of live music that you could hear where I came from, which was a small town in southeast Missouri.
Just when you're beginning to think pretty well of people, you run across somebody who puts sugar on sliced tomatoes.
It's easy to see the faults in people, I know; and it's harder to see the good. Especially when the good isn't there.
The evil that men do lives on the front pages of greedy newspapers, but the good is oft interred apathetically inside.
The moving van is a symbol of more than our restlessness, it is the most conclusive evidence possible of our progress.
Crime dramas will never go away as long as people turn to television for, among other things, reassurance and comfort.
Aristotle described the Crow as chaste. In some departments of knowledge, Aristotle was too innocent for his own good.