Today Quotes
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For an idea ever to be fashionable is ominous, since it must afterwards be always old-fashioned.George Santayana, Winds of Doctrine (1913) ch. 2
Intolerance itself is a form of egoism, and to condemn egoism intolerantly is to share it.George Santayana, Winds of Doctrine (1913) ch. 4
Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.John Singer Sargent, quoted in Bentley and Esar, Treasury of Humorous Quotations (1951)
A writer must refuse to allow himself to be transformed into an institution.Jean-Paul Sartre, Upon refusing the Nobel Prize, Oct. 22, 1964
Existence precedes and rules essence.Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness (1943)
Hell is other people.Jean-Paul Sartre, Closed Doors (1944)
The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes--ah, that is where the art resides!Arthur Schnabel, in Chicago Daily News, June 11 1958
When I am asked, "What do you think of our audience?" I answer, "I know two kinds of audiences only--one coughing, and one not coughing."Arthur Schnabel, My Life and Music (1961)
Ah! the clock is always slow;
It is later than you think.Robert Service, Ballads of a Bohemian (1921)
I never resist temptation because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me.George Bernard Shaw, The Apple Cart (1930)