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" A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life. "
Happy
Childhood
Happy Childhood
" A Librettist is a mere drudge in the world of opera. "
Opera
Mere
World
" A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight. "
Light
Youth
Age
" Authors like cats because they are such quiet, lovable, wise creatures, and cats like authors for the same reasons. "
Wise
Like
Same
" Canada is not really a place where you are encouraged to have large spiritual adventures. "
Place
Canada
Where
" Do not suppose, however, that I intend to urge a diet of classics on anybody. I have seen such diets at work. I have known people who have actually read all, or almost all, the guaranteed Hundred Best Books. God save us from reading nothing but the best. "
People
Work
God
" Every man is wise when attacked by a mad dog; fewer when pursued by a mad woman; only the wisest survive when attacked by a mad notion. "
Wise
Woman
Man
" Extraordinary people survive under the most terrible circumstances and they become more extraordinary because of it. "
Become
Circumstances
People
" Fanaticism is overcompensation for doubt. "
Doubt
Fanaticism
" Few people can see genius in someone who has offended them. "
See
Offended
People
" I do not 'get' ideas; ideas get me. "
Imagination
Ideas
Me
" If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual. "
Love
Common Sense
Sense
" I never heard of anyone who was really literate or who ever really loved books who wanted to suppress any of them. "
Really
Who
Heard
" I see Canada as a country torn between a very northern, rather extraordinary, mystical spirit which it fears and its desire to present itself to the world as a Scotch banker. "
Spirit
Desire
Canada
" Literary critics, however, frequently suffer from a curious belief that every author longs to extend the boundaries of literary art, wants to explore new dimensions of the human spirit, and if he doesn't, he should be ashamed of himself. "
Curious
Belief
Art
" May I make a suggestion, hoping it is not an impertinence? Write it down: write down what you feel. It is sometimes a wonderful help in misery. "
Sometimes
Help
Misery
" No people in the world can make you feel so small as the English. "
Small
English
Feel
" Nothing is so easy to fake as the inner vision. "
Easy
Fake
Inner
" Only a fool expects to be happy all the time. "
Happy
Fool
Only
" Students today are a pretty solemn lot. One of the really notable achievements of the twentieth century has been to make the young old before their time. "
Today
Young
Time
" The drama may be called that part of theatrical art which lends itself most readily to intellectual discussion: what is left is theater. "
Intellectual
Drama
Art
" The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend. "
Only
Sees
Mind
" The great book for you is the book that has the most to say to you at the moment when you are reading. I do not mean the book that is most instructive, but the book that feeds your spirit. And that depends on your age, your experience, your psychological and spiritual need. "
Book
Experience
Spiritual
" The greatest gift that Oxford gives her sons is, I truly believe, a genial irreverence toward learning, and from that irreverence love may spring. "
Believe
Learning
Love
" Their very conservatism is secondhand, and they don't know what they are conserving. "
Politics
Conservatism
Very
" The love of truth lies at the root of much humor. "
Humor
Root
Love
" The most original thing a writer can do is write like himself. It is also his most difficult task. "
Task
Write
Difficult
" The quality of what is said inevitably influences the way in which it is said, however inexperienced the writer. "
Influences
Writer
Way
" There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity. "
Society
Nonsense
Will
" The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealised past. "
Past
Fact
World
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