"In the faculty of writing nonsense, stupidity is no match for genius."

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Source : Walter Bagehot (1986). “The Collected Works of Walter Bagehot: Miscellany”

Walter Bagehot

#Book Quotes #Writing Quotes #Stupidity Quotes

“I'm not a good crime writer. I'm not good with plots... so I have to do something else.”
“One day they'll let you out of that dry, empty cell. You'll return to the Separates, and you'll feel the rain once more. And you'll grow straight, this time, toward this sunlight. I know you will.”
“We learn martial arts as helping weakness. You never fight for people to get hurt. You're always helping people.”
“When we begin to believe that there is greater joy in working with and for others, rather than just for ourselves, then our society will truly become a place of celebration.”
“Adventure is where you find it, any place, every place, except at home in the rocking chair.”
“I wouldn't do the 'Magic Hour' again, but I would do TV again. The 'Magic Hour' is not me. Anything I would do, I would have to be me. That is how it would work.”
“When after many battles past, Both tir'd with blows, make peace at last, What is it, after all, the people get? Why! taxes, widows, wooden legs, and debt.”
“The art of today is that which really belongs to us: it is our own reflection. In condemning it we but condemn ourselves.”

Source : Okakura Kakuzo (2000). “The Book of Tea the Illustrated Classic Edition”, p.81, Tuttle Publishing

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