"The instructed man is ashamed to pronounce in an Orphic manner what everybody knows, and because he is silent people think he is making fun of them."

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Source : Van Wyck Brooks (1958). “From a writer's notebook”

Van Wyck Brooks

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“There are intellectual vagabonds, to whom the hereditary dwelling-place of their fathers seems too cramped and oppressive for them to be willing to satisfy themselves with the limited space any more: instead of keeping within the limits of a temperate style of thinking, and taking as inviolable truth what furnishes comfort and tranquility to thousands, they overlap all bounds of the traditional and run wild with their imprudent criticism and untamed mania for doubt, these extravagating vagabonds.”
“An idle life and a holy heart is a contradiction.”
“In whatever sense this year is a new year for you, may the moment find you eager and unafraid, ready to take it by the hand with joy and gratitude.”

Source : Howard Thurman (2014). “Meditations of the Heart”, p.139, Beacon Press
“I think something very weird's going on now, 'cause the power that is permitted to youth is quite extraordinary. And they are sort of run by that kind of power.”

Source : "Edie : Girl On Fire". Book by David Weisman and Melissa Painter, 2006.
“I've always believed in writing without a collaborator, because where two people are writing the same book, each believes he gets all the worry and only half the royalties.”
“Although the Chinese had used opium as a medicine, there was no widespread addiction before the British arrived.”
“I like movies about people and movies with characters; that's what I'm drawn to as a person who likes to create these characters within the story, but I like it all, really.”
“The significance and influence of just one BNP councillor is far in excess of the council powers such an elected figure can, in reality, command.”

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