Monday, January 27, 2003
�The age of great men is going; the epoch of the ant-hill, of life in multiplicity, is beginning.�
- Henri-Fr�d�ric Amiel (1821 � 1881), Swiss philosopher and writer: �Journal�, 1851.
�It is clear that a novel cannot be too bad to be worth publishing� it certainly is possible for a novel to be too good to be worth publishing.�
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 � 1950), Irish socialist, writer, dramatist and critic: �Plays, Pleasant and Unpleasant�, 1898.
�Sexual pleasure seems to consist in a sudden discharge of nervous energy. Aesthetic enjoyment is a sudden discharge of allusive emotions. Similarly, philosophy is like a sudden discharge of intellectual activity.�
- Jos� Ortega y Gasset (1883 � 1955), Spanish philosopher and critic: �Meditations on Quijote�, 1914.
�The modern pantheist not only sees the god in everything, he takes photographs of it.�
- D. H. Lawrence (1885 � 1930), English writer, poet and critic: �St. Mawr�, 1925.
- Henri-Fr�d�ric Amiel (1821 � 1881), Swiss philosopher and writer: �Journal�, 1851.
�It is clear that a novel cannot be too bad to be worth publishing� it certainly is possible for a novel to be too good to be worth publishing.�
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 � 1950), Irish socialist, writer, dramatist and critic: �Plays, Pleasant and Unpleasant�, 1898.
�Sexual pleasure seems to consist in a sudden discharge of nervous energy. Aesthetic enjoyment is a sudden discharge of allusive emotions. Similarly, philosophy is like a sudden discharge of intellectual activity.�
- Jos� Ortega y Gasset (1883 � 1955), Spanish philosopher and critic: �Meditations on Quijote�, 1914.
�The modern pantheist not only sees the god in everything, he takes photographs of it.�
- D. H. Lawrence (1885 � 1930), English writer, poet and critic: �St. Mawr�, 1925.
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