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“The most fatal illusion is the settled point of view. Since life is growth and motion, a fixed point of view kills anybody who has one.”
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In every age "the good old days" were a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time. For every age has consisted of crises that seemed intolerable to the people who lived through them. ”
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In every age "the good old days" were a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time. For every age has consisted of crises that seemed intolerable to the people who lived through them. ”
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“Drop the last year into the silent limbo of the past. Let it go, for it was imperfect, and thank God that it can go.”
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“The virtue of the camera is not the power it has to transform the photographer into an artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on looking.”
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“His submissive death was the surest proof that he wholly believed the faith he had lived. He had no regrets or misgivings. "One world at a time," he said to Channing, who was speculating on the hereafter. When someone else inquired whether he had made his peace with God, he answered, "We have never quarreled.”
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“When Mr Wilbur calls his play Halfway to Hell, he underestimates the distance.”
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“The committee could not find a play worthy of an award in 1919. But in 1920 it gave the prize to Eugene O’Neill for Beyond the Horizon. Two years later he received the prize for Anna Christie. Not all the prize-winning plays since then have been of conspicuous merit. But routine entertainment in a box-office style has never again been regarded as prize material. During the two decades preceding World War I there had not been an American play that would be taken seriously today.”
― The Lively Years: 1920-1973
― The Lively Years: 1920-1973
“The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.”
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