"We properly judge a critic's virtue not by his freedom from error but by the nature of the mistakes he does make, for he makes them, if he is worth reading, because he has in mind something besides his perceptions about art in itself he has in mind the demands that he makes upon life."

-- Lionel Trilling

#Art Quotes #Mistake Quotes #Reading Quotes

“One might say that "Torch Song" is, in part, about the urgency of the effort to pin things down and what wild dart throwing that desire leads to.”

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“Watch out strange cat people, little red roosters on the prowl. If you see my little red rooster, please drive him home.”
“Politics is the practical exercise of the art of self-government, and somebody must attend to it if we are to have self-government; somebody must study it, and learn the art, and exercise patience and sympathy and skill to bring the multitude of opinions and wishes of self-governing people into such order that some prevailing opinion may be expressed and peaceably accepted. Otherwise, confusion will result either in dictatorship or anarchy. The principal ground of reproach against any American citizen should be that he is not a politician. Everyone ought to be, as Lincoln was.”

Source : "Men and Policies: Addresses". Book by Elihu Root, ed. Robert Bacon and James B. Scott, p. 75, "Lincoln as a Leader of Men", 1924.
“I was fired from my television job, simple as that. Well, downsized, really, a classic 1990s situation.”
“Nothing says spring like hand-cut flowers.”
“Most youth still hold the same values of their parentsâ€¦if we do not alter this pattern, if we donâ€™t resocialize, our system will decay.”
“Microsoft is not the problem. Microsoft is the symptom.”
“The production of natural resources in agriculture, forestry and fisheries, stable natural hydrological cycles, fertile soils, a balanced climate and numerous other vital ecosystem services can only be permanently secured through the protection and sustainable use of biological diversity.”

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