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“Friendship is a word, the very sight of which in print makes the heart warm.”
Source : Augustine Birrell (1922). “The Collected Essays & Addresses of the Rt. Hon. Augustine Birrell, 1880-1920 ...”
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“Fiction writing is a twenty-four-hou r-a-day occupation. You never leave your work behind. It is always with you, and to some extent, you are always thinking about it. You don't take your work home; your work never leaves home. It lives inside you. It resides and grows and comes alive in your mind.”
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“There are times when I wouldn't rule violence out. I personally don't like violence at all. But it wasn't until we had the Trafalgar Square riots that the Poll Tax went out in Britain. When people take to the streets and fight the police, it's the one thing the government can't control. You can march round in circles for the rest of your life and they can ignore it, but once you start damaging property and fighting with the police, they can't. Even though they tar you with a brush and say you're a set of bastards, they have to actually tone down what they are doing.”
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“The atom bomb was no “great decision.†It was used in the war, and for your information, there were more people killed by fire bombs in Tokyo than dropping of the atomic bombs accounted for. It was merely another powerful weapon in the arsenal of righteousness. The dropping of the bombs stopped the war, save millions of lives.”
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“With 'Twilight,' I felt the actors needed to be up-and-coming artists that haven't been recognized yet.”
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“The materialistic point of view in psychology can claim, at best, only the value of an heuristic hypothesis.”
Source : Wilhelm Max Wundt (1969). “Principles of Physiological Psychology”
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“It's not so," I said. "And how long do you think it will sustain you, feeling and seeing and touching and tasting, if there is no love? No one with you?”
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“It is the mark of great art that its appeal is universal and eternal.”
Source : Clive Bell (1958). “Art”, Perigee
