"As a child I found railroad stations exciting,……" — Paul Johnson
"As a child I found railroad stations exciting, mysterious, and even beautiful, as indeed they often were."
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39 Quotes by Paul Johnson
Paul Johnson has 39 quotes on this site.
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Euphemism is a human device to conceal the horrors of reality.
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To many, Heathrow in August is a paradigm of Hell.
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The study of history is a powerful antidote to contemporary arrogance. It is humbling to discover how many of our…
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A deliberate plan is not always necessary for the highest art; it emerges.
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This book is dedicated to the people of America--strong, outspoken, intense in their convictions, sometimes wrong-headed but always generous and…
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Nothing appeals to intellectuals more than the feeling that they represent 'the people'. Nothing, as a rule, is further from…
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I very much wanted to live in Paris when I was in the army, and I was quite determined to.…
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Courage is the essential element in any great public man or woman.
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When people talk about political correctness, the only element of any value is good manners.
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Next to courage, willpower is the most important thing in politics.
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Human beings are infinitely worth studying, especially the peculiarities that often go along with outstanding gifts.
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The most evil person I ever met was a toss-up between Pablo Picasso and the publisher-crook Robert Maxwell.
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By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality.
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I believe more in precision, when you have the capability, like when you see a mosquito fly and you're able…
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Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.
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Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
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People must feel that the natural world is important and valuable and beautiful and wonderful and an amazement and a…
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But I liked Yeats! That wild Irishman. I really loved his love of language, his flow. His chaotic ideas seemed…
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The worse my drawings were, the more beautiful did the originals appear.
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I have read in Plato and Cicero sayings that are wise and very beautiful; but I have never read in…
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Anything in any way beautiful derives its beauty from itself and asks nothing beyond itself. Praise is no part of…
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Changing your mind is probably one of the most beautiful things people can do. And I've changed my mind about…
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Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
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It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between.
— Diane Ackerman
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