Vulgar Quote by William S. Wilson Download Open image ““Passionless is vulgar ("Metier: Why I Don't Write Like Franz Kafka")”” — William S. Wilson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Franz Kafka Vulgar Vulgarity
“A writer needs to ingest love to be passionate. Passion is a metabolite of love, and good writing is an active metabolite of passion.” — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
“Passion," the artist implied, would have been the dominant note of his life, had it not been held in check by a sentiment of… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
“[...] passion is by no means the fuller life which it seems to be in the dreams of adolescence, but is on the contrary… — Denis De Rougemont Copy Share Image
“Only when a book is written out of passion is there much hope of its being read with passion.” — Jean Fritz Copy Share Image
“No writer in our time has been more isolated than Kafka, and yet few have achieved communication as well as he did.” — Eugenio Montale Copy Share Image
“Passion may be false, trivial or unnatural, but, if violent enough, is not without some trace of grandeur.” — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“Passion, and passion in its profoundest, is not a thing demanding a palatial stage whereon to play its part. Down among the groundlings, among… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Passion is not friendly. It is arrogant, superbly contemptuous of all that is not itself, and, as they very definition of passion implies the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Passion was something pure and indescribable - something one could see without being told.” — N.K. Smith Copy Share Image
“Life is pitifully mediocre without passion. Never let anyone take your passion away from you.” — Keely Brooke Keith Copy Share Image
“Every problem of medicine is a problem of language, and this operation was a malapropism.” — William S. Wilson Copy Share Image
“Psychological motivation is the desire to change relations between two points, and so psychology is the study of equations with two unbound variables. ("America:… — William S. Wilson Copy Share Image
“For that half-hour in the hospital delivery room I was intimate with immensity, for that half-minute before birth I held her hands and for… — William S. Wilson Copy Share Image
“The woman who undergoes this operation can sense the morphogenetic field at work in her face. She can feel the lines of force as… — William S. Wilson Copy Share Image
“You might say as you tirelessly said of my stories, at least of the adjectives, that I should render the evidence, not render the… — William S. Wilson Copy Share Image
“I don't think that anyone outside Paris can understand love and murder as we do. But Emile loves Paris, and loving Paris is a… — William S. Wilson Copy Share Image
“I find no reason to think that aging is genetically determined. Genes do not provide information for the development of the individual beyond growth… — William S. Wilson Copy Share Image
“Comparisons deplete the actuality of the things compared... ("Conveyance: The Story I would Not Want Bill Wilson To Read")” — William S. Wilson Copy Share Image
“...each part of a story, each word if possible, was to work frontally as well as laterally... ("Conveyance: The Story I would Not Want… — William S. Wilson Copy Share Image
“Turning and climbing, the double helix evolved to an operation which had always existed as a possibility for mankind, the eating of light. The… — William S. Wilson Copy Share Image
“The stories of young men searching for their fathers are the stories of young men who through their adventures father themselves by doing for… — William S. Wilson Copy Share Image
“Today, and let us celebrate this fact, We can eat the light of our beloved, warmed by compassion or cooled by intellectual feeling. And… — William S. Wilson Copy Share Image
On July 26, 1916, I announced to all my friends in America that from now on I resolved to write no more poems in… — Hu Shih Copy Share Image
It was just the sort of yatch you'd expect a rock promoter to have. Mirrored ceilings, marble, Jacuzzis and leopard-skin everything, it made the… — Pamela Anderson Copy Share Image
Comedy, although it is not one of the fine arts - it's a vulgar art, it's one of the people's arts, it's the spoken… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
To apologize for what you most wanted to do, to concede that it was obnoxious, boring, 'vulgar and unsafe' --- that was the worst… — Alan Hollinghurst Copy Share Image
One would think that a system loaded with such gross and vulgar absurdities as Scripture religion is could never have obtained credit; yet we… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Fashion is a great restraint upon your persons of taste and fancy; who would otherwise in the most trifling instances be able to distinguish… — William Shenstone Copy Share Image
Rich men are resolved to be astonished at nothing. When they see a masterpiece, they must needs at one glance recognize some flaw to… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Vulgar and inactive minds confound familiarity with knowledge, and conceive themselves informed of the whole nature of things, when they are shown their form… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The unary Photograph has every reason to be banal, 'unity' of composition being the first rule of vulgar (and notably, of academic) rhetoric: 'The… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
I grant you that the artist does not see Nature as she appears to the vulgar, because his emotion reveals to him the hidden… — Auguste Rodin Copy Share Image
The dominant propaganda systems have appropriated the term "globalization" to refer to the specific version of international economic integration that they favor, which privileges… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“By salvation I mean not barely according to the vulgar notion deliverance from hell or going to heaven but a present deliverance from sin… — John Wesley Copy Share Image