"India has left a deeper mark upon the history the philosophy and the religion of mankind than any other terrestrial unit in the universe."

-- George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston

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“I was doing something that the officials or art commission probably didn't consider important... I was experimenting with different kinds of realistic art, impressionism and the more decorative compositions of different forms of painting, which took away from the earlier photographic realism that I was doing.”
“I stress the uniqueness of the Australian landscape and its metaphysical and mythic content.”
“I don't bring expectations to any of my books. I don't tell people what to do. I want to invite them in.”
“Harmony of period and melody of style have greater weight than is generally imagined in the judgment we pass upon writing and writers. As a proof of this, let us reflect what texts of scripture, what lines in poetry, or what periods we most remember and quote, either in verse or prose, and we shall find them to be only musical ones.”
“A man who for an entire week does nothing but hit himself over the head has little reason to be proud.”
“Politicians who wish to succeed must be prepared to dissemble, at times to lie. All deceit is bad. In politics some deceit or moral dishonesty is the oil without which the machinery would not work.”
“If you would keep your soul From spotted sight or sound, Live like the velvet mole; Go burrow underground.”

Source : Elinor Wylie, Evelyn Helmick Hively (2005). “Selected Works of Elinor Wylie”, p.12, Kent State University Press
“I was fiercely independent and ambitious from a very young age.”

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