"The novelist's--any writer's--object is to whittle down his meaning to the exactest and finest possible point. What, of course, isfatal is when he does not know what he does mean: he has no point to sharpen."

-- Elizabeth Bowen

#Mean Quotes #Novelists Quotes #Doe Quotes

“If in heroic conduct, whether of warriors, philosophers or scientists, we see what is of essential nature, then we know that all heroism groups itself around a supreme value. This has always been the idea of honour, spiritual and mental. But the idea of honour, like its corporeal representatives, was involved in a war of soul and spirit against the values represented by alien races or the offspring of racial chaos.”

Source : "The Myth of the Twentieth Century". Book by Alfred Rosenberg, 1930.
“Not everything comes along just when you want it. There are times when choices just have to be made or you'll simply miss out.”
“Caution, not exuberance, should be our fiscal motto.”
“It's a matter of seeing the original meaning of all things. The world is full of all kinds of meanings. But our minds are so fettered by the lies and falsehoods they make for themselves, that they cannot see the beauty, goodness, or truth of those meanings. Only a mind that has become free can see such things...”
“Never start a conversation with a yawn”
“I don't think we had a hard time with ["Mary and Jane"]. It is just, it was the constant management of it.”

Source : Source: www.indiewire.com
“The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, not the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when you discover that someone else believes in you and is willing to trust you with a friendship.”
“I wish that the arts were better supported, and you can't say that enough times, but I also believe that whatever happens, artists will keep going.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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