"When you close your eyes to tragedy, you……" — Stephen Vizinczey

When you close your eyes to tragedy, you close your eyes to… - Stephen Vizinczey

"When you close your eyes to tragedy, you close your eyes to greatness."

— Stephen Vizinczey

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21 Quotes by Stephen Vizinczey

Stephen Vizinczey has 21 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Most bad books get that way because their authors are engaged in trying to justify themselves. If a vain author…
We now have a whole culture based on the assumption that people know nothing and so anything can be said…
Is it possible that I am not alone in believing that in the dispute between Galileo and the Church, the…
You tell me your favorite novelists and I'll tell you whom you vote for, or whether you vote at all.
Consistency is a virtue for trains: what we want from a philosopher is insights, whether he comes by them consistently…
Great writers are not those who tell us we shouldn’t play with fire, but those who make our fingers burn.
The truth is that our race survived ignorance; it is our scientific genius that will do us in.
The only virtue a character needs to possess between hardcovers, even if he bears a real person's name, is vitality:…
Dictatorship is a constant lecture instructing you that your feelings, your thoughts and desires are of no account, that you…
Whenever you hear the word "inevitable", watch out! An enemy of humanity has identified himself.
The war against Vietnam is only the ghastliest manifestation of what I'd call imperial provincialism, which afflicts America's whole culture-aware…
Like all wage slaves, he had two crosses to bear: the people he worked for and the people he worked…

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It's a brilliant surface in that sunlight. The horizon seems quite close to you because the curvature is so much… — Neil Armstrong
I have always drawn strength from being close to home. — Arthur Ashe
From my close observation of writers... they fall into two groups: 1) those who bleed copiously and visibly at any… — Isaac Asimov
Everyone likes birds. What wild creature is more accessible to our eyes and ears, as close to us and everyone… — David Attenborough
Time is compressed like the fist I close on my knee... I hold inside it the clues and solutions and… — Margaret Atwood
Because we can't escape our ancient hunger to live close to nature, we encircle the house with lawns and gardens,… — Diane Ackerman
What friends or kindred can be so close and intimate as the powers of our soul, which, whether we will… — Teresa of Avila
A man's illness is his private territory and, no matter how much he loves you and how close you are,… — Lauren Bacall
I want to be very close to someone I respect and admire and have somebody who feels the same way… — Richard Bach
Truth is a good dog; but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you… — Francis Bacon
Completeness? Happiness? These words don't come close to describing my emotions. There truly is nothing I can say to capture… — Anita Baker
I'm not an actor that tends to care. I don't ask 'Is this a close up? Is this a master?… — Christian Bale

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