To be wise means to be a teacher, means to be a soul winner. That's our business - That's our only business!
J. Frank Norris
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The People have a right to the Truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
I never truckled. I never took off the hat to Fashion and held it out for pennies. I told them the truth. They liked it or they didn't like it. What had that to do with me? I told them the truth.
Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.
No one to love, none to caress, Left all alone in this world's wilderness.
Evil is short lived. Never judge of the whole round of life by the mere segment you can see. The whole is, in the end, perfect.
The function of the novelist... is to comment upon life as he sees it.
No art that is not in the end understood by the People can live or ever did live a single generation.
Things can happen in some cities and the tale of them will be interesting: the same story laid in another city would be ridiculous.
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There is no interruption between my older paintings and my cutouts. Just that with an increasing sense of the absolute, and more abstraction, I have achieved a form that is simplified to its essence.
The nature of love is that it catches you off-guard, subjects you to rules you have never faced, some of them contradictory.
We must not condemn to frustration those whose job it is to protect us by failing to provide them with the necessary resources to meet the threats they face.
I'm an actor. That's what I'm gifted at. It's what makes me breathe.