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“It takes a while to grasp that not all failures are self-imposed, the result of ignorance, carelessness or inexperience. It takes a while to grasp that a garden isn't a testing ground for character and to stop asking, what did I do wrong? Maybe nothing.”
Source : Eleanor Perenyi (2010). “Green Thoughts: A Writer in the Garden”, p.65, Modern Library
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“Beauty Queen' is the weirdest, strangest, and most perfect play to do before 'Hedda Gabler', because there are so many similar issues for Maureen and Hedda. I had played leading ladies before but couldn't really hook into them. After 'An American Daughter' and 'Beauty Queen', I had all the ballast.”
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“It is always easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.”
Source : In Phyllis Bottome Alfred Adler (1939) p. 76
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“I do not work within the confines of any realm. I work in the unique moment of duration.”
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“when driven to the necessity of explaining, I found that I did not myself understand what I meant.”
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“Genius is a sovereign power; it forms schools; it lays hold on the spirits of men, with irresistible might; and it exercises an immeasurable influence on the whole condition of human life. This sovereignty of genius is a gift of God, possessed only by his grace. It is subject to no one and is responsible to him alone who has granted it this ascendancy.”
Source : Abraham Kuyper (2007). “Lectures on Calvinism”, p.95, Cosimo, Inc.
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“I like people talking about me, about my defense or what I'm doing. I like to see that, and that makes me work hard.”
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“The price that one pays for refusing to act on the truth as one sees it, is to be led to believe untruth to avoid guilt.”
