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- The intellect is a very nice whirligig toy, but how people take it seriously is more than I can understand.
- The Image is more than an idea. It is a vortex or cluster of fused ideas and is endowed with energy.
- There are few things more difficult than to appraise the work of a man suddenly dead in his youth; to disentangle promise from achievement; to…
- No picture is made to endure nor to live with but it is made to sell and sell quickly with usura, sin against nature, is…
- The phase of the usury system which we are trying to analyze is more or less Patterson's perception that the Bank of England could have…
- The man of understanding can no more sit quiet and resigned while his country lets its literature decay, and lets good writing meet with contempt,…
- The secret of popular writing is never to put more on a given page than the common reader can lap off it with no strain…
- It is more than likely that the brain itself is, in origin and development, only a sort of great clot of genital fluid held in…
- It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his…
- Poetry is a sort of inspired mathematics, which gives us equations, not for abstract figures, triangles, squares, and the like, but for the human emotions.…
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- I believe in anything that will engage the audience and make the story more effective. — J. J. Abrams
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. — Aristotle
- In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of… — Aristotle
- Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. — Aristotle
- The whole is more than the sum of its parts. — Aristotle