"When he looks back, the critic sees a eunuch's shadow. Who would be a critic if he could be a writer? Who would hammer out the subtlest insight into Dostoevsky if he could weld an inch of the Karamazovs, or argue the poise of Lawrence if he could shape the free gust of life in The Rainbow?"

-- George Steiner

#Rainbow Quotes #Shadow Quotes #Would Be Quotes

“Extremes meet', as the whiting said with its tail in its mouth.”
“A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.”
“Tonight we celebrate Hollywood's best and whitest, sorry... brightest.”

Source : "Oscars 2015: Best & Worst Political Moments" by Allan MacDonell, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 22, 2015.
“Musashi, who trained himself, became a master swordsman who was never defeated.”

Source : Kerr Cuhulain (2002). “Full Contact Magick: A Book of Shadows for the Wiccan Warrior”, p.187, Llewellyn Worldwide
“I like playing accents, and doing things like that, it was fun. It was fun.”
“We are always learning from each others. Only when we merge inside God would we stop learning. We will understand more as we teach others, so we rely on teaching in order to learn for ourselves.”
“People marry for a variety of reasons and with varying results. But to marry for love is to invite inevitable tragedy.”
“Ambassadors are honest men sent abroad to lie for their countries.”

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