Harold Acton famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

So often is the virgin sheet of paper more real than what one has to say, and so often one regrets having marred it.
-- Harold Acton

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The biographies and autobiographies are on the whole more impressive than the fiction of the last two decades, but the freakish best sellers among them are least likely to withstand the test of time.
-- Harold Acton

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Some people take no mental exercise apart from jumping to conclusions.
-- Harold Acton

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No regrets. There is no time for that. Regret is boring.
Be content with what you have Be satisfied with your dwelling place to accommodate your enterprise, Restrain your tongue, And shed tears of regret regarding past sins you committed knowingly, and those you do not recognize.
There's no regrets for me.
I will probably always cry myself to sleep, but knowing this, someday the tears won't be sad, or filled with regret. Maybe they will be joyful
The artist draws a picture of a rose very nicely with all attention and artistic sense, and yet it does not become as perfect as the real rose. If that is the real fact, how can we say that the real rose has taken its shape without Intelligence behind the beauty?
I think vestigially there's a synesthete in me, but not like a real one who immediately knows what colour Wednesday is.
I'd rather feel something for real than pretend it's not what it is.
If the English language had been properly organized ... then there would be a word which meant both 'he' and 'she', and I could write, 'If John or Mary comes heesh will want to play tennis', which would save a lot of trouble.
Back in the days when American billboard advertising was in flower [said Hemingway], there were two slogans that I always rated above all others: the old Cremo Cigar ad that proclaimed, Spit Is a Horrid Word-but Worse on the end of Your Cigar, and Drink Schlitz in Brown Bottles and Avoid that Skunk Taste. You don't get creative writing like that any more.
The only way to write is well and how you do it is your own damn business.

Harold Acton famous quotes

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