"The war against Vietnam is only the ghastliest……" — Stephen Vizinczey
"The war against Vietnam is only the ghastliest manifestation of what I'd call imperial provincialism, which afflicts America's whole culture-aware only of its own history, insensible to everything which isn't part of the local atmosphere."
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21 Quotes by Stephen Vizinczey
Stephen Vizinczey has 21 quotes on this site.
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Most bad books get that way because their authors are engaged in trying to justify themselves. If a vain author…
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We now have a whole culture based on the assumption that people know nothing and so anything can be said…
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Is it possible that I am not alone in believing that in the dispute between Galileo and the Church, the…
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You tell me your favorite novelists and I'll tell you whom you vote for, or whether you vote at all.
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Consistency is a virtue for trains: what we want from a philosopher is insights, whether he comes by them consistently…
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Great writers are not those who tell us we shouldn’t play with fire, but those who make our fingers burn.
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The truth is that our race survived ignorance; it is our scientific genius that will do us in.
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The only virtue a character needs to possess between hardcovers, even if he bears a real person's name, is vitality:…
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When you close your eyes to tragedy, you close your eyes to greatness.
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Dictatorship is a constant lecture instructing you that your feelings, your thoughts and desires are of no account, that you…
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Whenever you hear the word "inevitable", watch out! An enemy of humanity has identified himself.
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Like all wage slaves, he had two crosses to bear: the people he worked for and the people he worked…
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Artistic temperament is the disease that afflicts amateurs.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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No marvel if the worldling escape earthly afflictions. God corrects him not. He is base born and begot. God will…
— Joseph Hall
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There are moments when, faced with our lack of success, I wonder whether we are failures, proud but impotent. One…
— Jules de Goncourt
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Reckoned physiologically, everything ugly weakens and afflicts man. It recalls decay, danger, impotence; he actually suffers a loss of energy…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Th' newspaper does ivrything f'r us. It runs th' polis foorce an' th' banks, commands th' milishy, controls th' ligislachure,…
— Finley Peter Dunne
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Now this is a mystery to a carnal heart. They can see no such thing; perhaps they think God loves…
— Jeremiah Burroughs
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I suspect that writer's block afflicts mainly people who have some stable and ample source of income outside of writing.…
— Fred Saberhagen
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It is not depravity that afflicts the human race so much as a general lack of intelligence.
— Agnes Repplier
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It is the cruelest of all ironies that moderns imagine themselves to be (abstractly understood) "individuals," because in actuality moderns…
— Kenny Smith
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I think of the difficulties which, in various countries, today afflicts the world of work and business; I think of…
— Pope Francis
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Anger is one of the most common and destructive delusions, and it afflicts our mind almost every day. To solve…
— Geshe Kelsang Gyatso
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The desire for self-expression afflicts people when they feel there is something of themselves which is not getting through to…
— Fay Weldon
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