"To be alive is to be afraid, and much to our advantage in many cases, since alarm often preserves us from danger."

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Source : Judith N. Shklar, Stanley Hoffmann (1998). “Political Thought and Political Thinkers”, p.11, University of Chicago Press

Judith N. Shklar

#Fear Quotes #Alarms Quotes #Alive Quotes

“Can you make yourself love? Can you make yourself loved? -Lena Kaligaris”
“Creativity: Take the obvious, add a cupful of brains, a generous pinch of imagination, a bucketful of courage and daring, stir well and bring to a boil.”
“Going back to Hemingway's work after several years is like going back to a brook where you had often fished and finding the woods as deep and cool as they used to be.”

Source : Quoted in Pete Hamill A Drinking Life (1994).
“People have a hard time believing that, but not having a father around, being shy, I just never participated in sports much.”
“Lenin was the first to discover that capitalism 'inevitably' caused war; and he discovered this only when the First World War was already being fought. Of course he was right. Since every great state was capitalist in 1914.”
“The U.S. Senate - an old scow which doesn't move very fast, but never sinks.”
“Criticism should be done by critics, and a critic should have some training and some love of the medium he is discussing. But these days, gossip-columnist training seems to be enough qualification. I suppose an ability to stand on your feet through interminable cocktail parties and swig interminable gins in between devouring masses of fried prawns may just possibly help you to understand and appreciate what a director is getting at, but for the life of me I can't see how.”

Source : "Mr. Strangelove: A Biography of Peter Sellers". Book by Ed Sikov, p. 168, 1999.
“My mother Elizabeth Ivey Brubeck was a pianist who studied with Dame Myra Hess and Tobias Matthey. As a child in California I used to listen to her play Chopin.”

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