"What good is an obscenity trial except to popularize literature?"

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Rex Stout

#Literature Quotes #Trials Quotes #Obscenity Quotes

“One's happiness depends less on what he knows than on what he feels.”

Source : Liberty Hyde Bailey (1903). “The Nature-study Idea: Being an Interpretation of the New School-movement to Put the Child in Sympathy with Nature”
“The real beauty of democracy is that the average man believes he is above average.”
“Pour the bulk of your time into action, not deciding. The state of indecision is a major time waster. Don't spend more than 60 seconds in that state if you can avoid it. Make a firm, immediate decision, and move from uncertainty to certainty to action. Let the world tell you when you're wrong, and you'll soon build enough experience to make accurate, intelligent decisions.”
“When you do well at an audition, it is the highest high you can achieve because you just beat yourself. You became whatever it was, for a minute. It's a great feeling, when that happens.”
“It makes me sad when I see things that are just the same technology; you aren't passing the technology forward.”
“Every mission constitutes a pledge of duty. Every man is bound to consecrate his every faculty to its fulfilment. He will derive his rule of action from the profound conviction of that duty.”
“I wish I could say it's easy, but honestly, to get ready for a big championship is not as easy as it seems.”
“They say you should know your limits and work within them. But how can you really know your limits unless you try to expand them?”

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