"The purpose of education is to fit us for life in a civilised community, and it seems to follow from the subjects we study that the two most important things in civilised life are Art and Science."

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Source : "The Case for Democracy". Interview with Jamie Glazov, archive.frontpagemag.com. December 17, 2004.

Anthony Burgess

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“Now, Bella suspected by this time that Mr. Rokesmith admired her. Whether the knowledge (for it was rather that than suspicion) caused her to incline to him a little more, or a little less, than she had done at first; whether it rendered her eager to find out more about him, because she sought to establish reason for her distrust, or because she sought to free him from it; was as yet dark to her own heart. But at most times he occupied a great amount of her attention.”
“I guess I'm not really fond of just chit-chatting. I want to learn something and have an experience.”
“I didn't wanna be looked at as no idiot, and I didn't wanna feel like I was uneducated, because I really stopped going to school at 15. I was never ignorant, as far as being experienced in classrooms and learning about different subjects and actually soaking it up, so I checked into college for a little bit.”

Source : Source: www.complex.com
“To love is to choose.”
“I learned patience, perseverance, and dedication. Now I really know myself, and I know my voice. It's a voice of pain and victory.”
“I wrote The Same Sea not as a political allegory about Israelis and Palestinians. I wrote it about something much more gutsy and immediate. I wrote it as a piece of chamber music.”
“Magnificent autumn! He comes not like a pilgrim, clad in russet weeds; not like a hermit, clad in gray; but like a warrior with the stain of blood in his brazen mail.”
“There should be a dash of the amateur in criticism. For the amateur is a man of enthusiasm who has not settled down and is not habit bound.”

Source : Brooks Atkinson (1951). “Once around the sun”

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