Critic Quotes

Is there not an art, a music, and a stream of words that shalt be life, the acknowledged voice of life?
Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse. Murphy's First Corollary If you tell the boss you were late for work because you had a flat tire, the next morning you will have a flat tire.
"Old times" never come back and I suppose it's just as well. What comes back is a new morning every day in the year, and that's better.
Language can only deal meaningfully with a special, restricted segment of reality. The rest, and it is presumably the much larger part, is silence.
Men are accomplices to that which leaves them indifferent.
The age of the book is almost gone.
The immense majority of human biographies are a gray transit between domestic spasm and oblivion.
The journalistic vision sharpens to the point of maximum impact every event, every individual and social configuration; but the honing is uniform.
The most important tribute any human being can pay to a poem or a piece of prose he or she really loves is to learn it by heart. Not by brain, by heart; the expression is vital.
The ordinary man casts a shadow in a way we do not quite understand. The man of genius casts light.
There is something terribly wrong with a culture inebriated by noise and gregariousness.
To many men... the miasma of peace seems more suffocating than the bracing air of war.
We know that a man can read Goethe or Rilke in the evening, that he can play Bach and Schubert, and go to his day's work at Auschwitz in the morning.
Words that are saturated with lies or atrocity, do not easily resume life.
A heretic is a man who sees with his own eyes.
A single grateful thought toward heaven is the most perfect prayer.
Absolute truth belongs to Thee alone.
For me the greatest beauty always lies in the greatest clarity.
For the will and not the gift makes the giver.
He who doesn't lose his wits over certain things has no wits to lose.
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