Henry Crew famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

It is my experience that the short path to the simple and precise English needed by a man of science lies thorough the tongues of Homer and Vergil.
-- Henry Crew

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Do I do as false prophets do and puff air into simulacra? Am I a Sorcerer--like Macbeth's witches--mixing truth and lies in incandescent shapes? Or am I a kind of very minor scribe of a prophetic Book--telling such truth as in me lies, with aid of such fiction as I acknowledge mine, as Prospero acknowledged Caliban.
The Bible says, 'The truth shall make you free.' But let's not forget it was Spiro Agnew who said that a good lie will keep you out of jail in the first place.
I believe it was the great ogre philosopher Gary who observed that complexity is, generally speaking, an illusion of conscious desire. All things exist in as simple a form as necessity dictates. When a thing is labeled 'complex,' that's just a roundabout way of saying you're not observant enough to understand it.
The business of making a photograph may be said in simple terms to consist of three elements: the objective world (whose permanent condition is change and disorder), the sheet of paper on which the picture will be realized, and the experience which brings them together.
Be modest, humble, simple. Control your anger.
In Chekhov, when people leave, a carriage is taking them away forever. The stakes are so high just for someone to make a simple exit. And now we have all this access to public transportation, automobiles and jets and the Internet; we're so easily distracted, but the world is still designed to destroy you. It just happens quicker and faster now.
He (Jeremy Clarkson) is the last man standing on the beach commanding the glaciers' melt waters to go back
Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.
The soul of the slave, the soul of the "little man," is as dear to me as the soul of the great.
Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink for fellows whom it hurts to think.

Henry Crew famous quotes

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