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Men of action, I notice, are rarely humble, even in situations where action of any kind is a great mistake, and masterly inaction is called for (Ter Quotes)
I am not even prepared to meet Professor Einstein or Bertrand Russell; why should I vaingloriously assume that God would find me interesting? (Ter Quotes)
Fine writers should split hairs together, and sit side by side, like friendly apes, to pick the fleas from each others fur (Ter Quotes)
Among the most graceful of birds, they have the ugliest faces; in the countenance of a seagull we observe all the bitter hatred and malignance which we usually associate with the faces of money-lenders or book censors (Ter Quotes)
…some say that happiness is not good for mortals and they ought to be answered that sorrow is not fit for immortals and is utterly useless to any one a blight never does good to a tree and if a blight kill not a tree but it still bear fruit let none say that the fruit was in consequence of the blight (Ter Quotes)
I was reading Dorothy Dix this afternoon; she says that it is permissible for a young man to tell a girl he knows fairly well that she has pretty ankles; from this I assume that the better he knows her the higher he may praise her (Ter Quotes)
In philosophy, it is not the attainment of the goal that matters, it is the things that are met with by the way (Ter Quotes)
Like a fiend in a cloud, with howling woe, after night I do crowd, and with night will go; I turn my back to the east, from whence comforts have increased; for light doth seize my brain with frantic pain (Ter Quotes)
The best among our writers are doing their accustomed work of mirroring what is deep in the spirit of our time; if chaos appears in those mirrors, we must have faith that in the future, as always in the past, that chaos will slowly reveal itself as a new aspect of order (Ter Quotes)
And I made a rural pen, and I stained the water clear, and I wrote my happy songs every child may joy to hear (Ter Quotes)
Books of the avant-garde either establish themselves as books of lasting value, or they slip from the rear guard into the discard, and I believe the writers I mentioned have not proven trivial (Ter Quotes)
This is, after all, a book about reading, and the kind of reader I am addressing does not care primarily about being in fashion (Ter Quotes)
The greatest task before civilization at present is to make machines what they ought to be, the slaves, instead of the masters of men (Ter Quotes)
The husband - by primitive instinct partly, certainly by ancient tradition - regards himself as the active partner in matters of love and his own pleasure as legitimately the prime motive for activity (Ter Quotes)
If you can, and if you are a playgoer and a filmgoer, you should be able to find voices for all the characters in the books you read (Ter Quotes)
The reader cannot create; that has been done for him by the author. The reader can only interpret, giving the author a fair chance to make his impression (Ter Quotes)
The omnipresent process of sex, as it is woven into the whole texture of our man's or woman's body, is the pattern of all the process of our life (Ter Quotes)
The modern writer is too often a theseus so enamored of the grotesque appearance and strange cavortings of the Minotaur that he has decided to make his permanent abode in the Labyrinth, and to accept the Minotaur's laws as his own (Ter Quotes)
Perhaps the most striking difference between Malory's Morte d'Arthur and Tennyson's Idylls of the King is that Malory's women are all human beings, and that Tennyson's are, in greater or less degree, prizes for good conduct (Ter Quotes)
The reason Milton wrote in fetters when he wrote of angels and god, and at liberty when of devils and hell, is because he was a true poet and of the devil's party without knowing it (Ter Quotes)
It is the little writer rather than the great writer who seems never to quote, and the reason is that he is never really doing anything else (Ter Quotes)
Complementary to his is Thurber's remark that humour is a kind of emotional chaos, told about quietly and calmly in retrospect. Emotional chaos is not pleasant; distillation of that chaos afterward may perhaps be pleasant in some of its aspects, and undoubtedly gives pleasure to others (Ter Quotes)
All progress in literary style lies in the heroic resolve to cast aside accretions and exuberances, all the conventions of a past age that were once beautiful because alive and are now false because dead (Ter Quotes)
In an age where public health has never been better provided for, and medical men enjoy a respect formerly reserved for the aristocracy and the clergy, millions of people are unwell, or merely feel unwell, or are in dread lest at some future time they may become unwell (Ter Quotes)
The day has long passed when a university degree was a guarantee of experience in the humanities, or of literacy beyond its barest meaning of being able, after a fashion, to read and write (Ter Quotes)
It is not tolerable, it is not possible, that from so much death, so much sacrifice and ruin, so much heroism, a greater and better humanity shall not emerge (Ter Quotes)
Turn away no more; why wilt thou turn away? The starry floor, the watery shore, is given thee till the break of day (Ter Quotes)
Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so (Ter Quotes)
As an adolescent I was convinced that France would have to go through gigantic trials, that the interest of life consisted in one day rendering her some signal service and that I would have the occasion to do so (Ter Quotes)
Such rebellion is too deep and too constant to express itself in picketing, marching, sitting-in or freaking out; it is the serious, unresting protest of serious people. It is 24-hours-a-day rebellion, not intermittent, showy, status-seeking public uproar. It is rebellion as a way of life (Ter Quotes)