The Christian churches were offered two things: the spirit of Jesus and the idiotic morality of Paul, and they rejected the higher inspiration... Following Paul, we have turned the goodness of love into a fiend and degraded the crowning impulse… — Frank Harris Copy Share Image
“There are two main traditions of English writing: the one of perfect liberty, that of Chaucer and Shakespeare, completely outspoken, with a certain liking for lascivious details and witty smut, a man’s speech; the other emasculated more and more by Puritanism and since the French Revolution, gelded to tamest propriety; for that upheaval brought the illiterate middle-class to power and… — Frank Harris Copy Share
“For the first time, vague doubts assaulted me, the shattering suspicion that for all pleasure and joy in life we had to pay ...… — Frank Harris Copy Share Image
“(...) always regretted that good memory often prevents us from thinking for ourselves.” — Frank Harris Copy Share Image
Strong people are made by opposition like kites that go up against the wind. — Frank Harris Copy Share Image
I am, really, a great writer; my only difficulty is in finding great readers. — Frank Harris Copy Share Image
All the faults of the age come from Christianity and journalism. Christianity, of course, but why journalism? — Frank Harris Copy Share Image
“Orang-orang kuat ditempa oleh pelbagai tantangan, seperti layang-layang yang dilambungkan ke langit oleh terpaan angin.” — Frank Harris Copy Share Image
“Memory is the mother of the muses, prototype Artist. As a rule picks and highlights what is important, omitting what is accidental or trivial.… — Frank Harris Copy Share Image
“I will, however, establish that success in love, as in all other aspects of life, belongs, as a rule, to the persistent and fiber… — Frank Harris Copy Share Image
“What will happen to those who stone the prophets and persecute the masters? His fate is written in flaming letters on each page of… — Frank Harris Copy Share Image
