Lionel Abel quotes

I have noted that persons with bad judgment are most insistent that we do what they think best.
-- Lionel Abel

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Goodbye, my almost lover. Goodbye, my hopeless dream. I'm trying not to think about you, can't you just let me be? So long, my luckless romance, my back is turned on you. Should've known you'd bring me heartache. Almost lovers always do.

The interesting adults are always the school failures, the weird ones, the losers, the malcontents, this isn’t wishful thinking. It’s the rule.

A quotation is a handy thing to have about, saving one the trouble of thinking for oneself, always a laborious business.

Here is Edward Bear, coming downstairs now, bump, bump, bump, on the back of his head, behind Christopher Robin. It is, as far as he knows, the only way of coming downstairs, but sometimes he feels that there really is another way, if only he could stop bumping for a moment and think of it. And then he feels that perhaps there isn't.

Some of my academic friends think Ive fallen from a very special grace.

A poem generated by its own laws may be unrealized and bad in terms of so-called objective principles of taste, judgement, deduction.

Imagination is vital to precautionary judgement.

The final act of business judgment is intuitive.

When you're afraid of someone's judgment, you can't connect with them. You're too preoccupied with the task of impressing them.

Incoherence is a common hazard for journalists who dabble in ethical judgments.