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The difference between the so-called art novel and the popular variety is perhaps that in the first the human beings are more important than the action and in the second it is the other way about

I did not wish to be known as a poet or critic or short-story writer. But I did not object to being known as a good journalist

There are two good reasons for writing much, if one can. The first is the need to earn; the second is the fear of an untimely death, which will prevent the half-formed books in one's mind from being realized. We know not the day nor the hour. I may be killed in a train accident when taking this present book to my publisher in London. You can see whether or not this happened by reading the blurb on the dust jacket

Love water, love it will all your being, but only from the well or the picnic spring. Tasteless but grateful in summer, embracing the hollow of any vessel. But never follow water to the river or sea.

Where shall we go to seek superior men? Superior in what? - a voice asks then: the answer: in no more than being men

Being young's a sort of sickness

He had the sensation of being pulled on ... to the slow unravelling of his last instalment of destiny

It was not a question of being cheerful, rather of shedding the shameful rotting stuff that was himself by making that inner nub which cried I, I, I into the centre of something free of the agony of thought

With awe and something of fear, John felt as if he were being instructed by the dead in person, souls of poets dead and gone. Doors were being opened. Welcome to long life and further revelations

The soul in hell is ... a soul at last aware that truth and beauty and goodness, as expressed in what we may call the personality of God, go on existing but quite beyond the hope of that soul's being able to get at them. The condemned soul knows what it wants, but it can't have what it wants. That's hell

I'm white, okay, and that goes against me. I can't help being white. That's a matter of luck, good or bad

I used to have this dream about being called in to save the life of a great man. I've only saved little men, and not too many of these

Being put into a book was the important thing

I recognized myself, somewhat sadly, as being a bookish man, ears pricking at the mention of a book unknown in an unknown language, any book, any language

Being uncommitted to veritable fact ... I can indulge in the free fancy that often turns out to be the truth

The church should get on with its job, which entails being persecuted. The church is never a victim, remember that. The church survives

Art is a division of heaven gratuitously given. Being quasi-divine, it is beyond human concerns... it is freely available to the morally evil as to the morally good

Art is a vision of heaven gratuitously given. Being quasi-divine, it is beyond human concerns... it is freely available to the morally evil as to the morally good

For this Love is enraged with me, Yet kills not ; if I must example be To future rebels, if th' unborn Must learn by my being cut up and torn, Kill, and dissect me, Love ; for this Torture against thine own end is ; Rack'd carcasses make ill anatomies.

John Donne

Arithmetic is being able to count up to twenty without taking off your shoes.

- Mickey Mouse

We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.

Alan Watts

Personally I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.

Winston Churchill

I'm defeated and I know it, if I meet any human being from whom I find myself unable to learn anything.

George Herbert Palmer

Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right.

Laurens van der Post

Arithmetic is being able to count up to twenty without taking off your shoes.

Mickey Mouse

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