"The trouble with science fiction is that you can write about everything: time, space, all the future, all the past, all of the universe, any kind of creature imaginable. That's too big. It provides no focus for the artist. An artist needs, in order to function, some narrowing of focus. Usually, in the history of art, the narrower the focus in which the artist is forced to work, the greater the art."

-- Philip J. Klass

#Art Quotes #Writing Quotes #Past Quotes

“It is easy to become the dupe of a deferred purpose, of the promise the future can never keep ...”
“Hate is a fear, and fear is rot That cankers root and fruit alike, Fight cleanly then, hate not, fear not, Strike with no madness when you strike.”

Source : Robert Graves, Beryl Graves, Dunstan Ward (1999). “Complete poems”, Carcanet Pr
“Any institution which does not suppose the people good, and the magistrate corruptible, is evil.”

Source : 'Dèclaration des droits de l'homme' 24 April 1793, article 25
“Im so fascinated by the human longing for meaning. The way we relate romantically to each other is so much to do with our longing for meaning as well.”
“I said I *liked* being half-educated; you were so much more *surprised* at everything when you were ignorant.”
“The attainment of justice is the highest human endeavor.”

Source : Florence Ellinwood Allen (1965). “To Do Justly”, Cleveland : Press of Western Reserve University
“I haven't got a waist. I've just got a sort of place, a bit like an unmarked level crossing.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Yes, I hate it when people call me a 'national treasure'. It takes away your bite and makes you feel like a harmless old golden Labrador.”

Source : "Sue Townsend: 'I hate it when people call me a national treasure'". Interview with Kate Kellaway, www.theguardian.com. July 31, 2010.

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