"Someone wrote a piece about Henry Green in The Partisan Review that was so intriguing that I got one of his novels, Loving, I believe, which was the first that came to attention in the United States."

-- Terry Southern

#Believe Quotes #Attention Quotes #Pieces Quotes

“We call the heroes of the past heroes of production.We feel entitled to call the present day magazine heroes 'idols ofconsumption'.Indeed, almosteveryoneofthem is directly, or indirectly, related to the sphere of leisure time.”
“Writers really live in the mind and in hotels of the soul.”

Source : Vogue Interview, April 1985.
“Good pain is pain in the service of a purpose. Bad pain is pain endured because we are resisting a needed growth step.”
“If people liked your singing well enough, if you were special to them, then you never left their minds throughout all of the years.”
“A good traveler leaves no tracks. Good speech lacks fault-finding.”
“I lack what the English call character, by which they mean the power to refrain.”
“Walks work for me. I enter some arena that is neither conscious or unconscious.”
“Science is a magnificent force, but it is not a teacher of morals. It can perfect machinery, but it adds no moral restraints to protect society from the misuse of the machine. It can also build gigantic intellectual ships, but it constructs no moral rudders for the control of storm tossed human vessel. It not only fails to supply the spiritual element needed but some of its unproven hypotheses rob the ship of its compass and thus endangers its cargo.”

Source : William Jennings Bryan (1924). “William Jennings Bryan on Orthodoxy, Modernism, and Evolution”, Facsimiles-Garl

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