Walter B. Pitkin famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

You will get little or nothing from the printed page if you bring it nothing but your eye.
-- Walter B. Pitkin

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Life begins at age forty.
-- Walter B. Pitkin

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If you wish to begin life at forty, you must settle two large personal questions first of all. You must find work and play that call for no more energy than you can afford to spend on them. Then you must train your mind, eye and hand to the point of working and playing with ease, grace and precision.
-- Walter B. Pitkin

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American business men must learn human nature to the point of accepting as necessary the Rabble Rouser of the Right. . . . To get fast action somebody must stir millions to genuine anger over conditions which are adversely affecting their lives.
-- Walter B. Pitkin

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We must develop huge demonstrations, because the world is used to big dramatic affairs. They think in terms of hundreds of thousands and millions and billions... Billions of dollars are appropriated at the twinkling of an eye. Nothing little counts.
I held his gaze. I could see the storm in his eyes. I knew he was confused. I could see the fear. Then there was the love. I saw it. The fierceness in his eyes. I believed it. I could see it clearly. But it was too late now. The love wasn't enough. Everyone always said that love was enough. It wasn't. Not when your soul was shattered.
The soul of the slave, the soul of the "little man," is as dear to me as the soul of the great.
It used to be that you kind of got pigeonholed into one thing - you're either a stage actor or a TV actor or a movie actor. Today, there's a lot of crossover with film actors doing television, which never happened before, so those lines are a little bit more blurred than they used to be.
I'm portable. I carry a laptop and a little recording studio on my back.
It is almost impossible to throw dirt on someone without getting a little on yourself
When he is wounded, I bleed. {page 262 of John Adams}
If a scene is longer than three pages, it better be for a good reason.
This morning I looked at the books on my shelves and thought that they have no knowledge of my existence. They come to life because I open them and turn their pages, and yet they don't know that I am their reader.
I dare hope that all the peoples who have lived through communism will understand that communism is to blame for the bitter pages of their history.

Walter B. Pitkin famous quotes

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