Samuel McChord Crothers quotes

“The trouble with facts is that there are so many of them.”
-- Samuel McChord Crothers

Source : The Gentle Reader (p. 183)

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“A prose writer gets tired of writing prose, and wants to be a poet. So he begins every line with a capital letter, and keeps on writing prose.”
-- Samuel McChord Crothers

Source : Samuel McChord Crothers (1920). “The Dame School of Experience, and Other Papers”

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“Try as hard as we may for perfection, the net result of our labors is an amazing variety of imperfectness. We are surprised at our own versatility in being able to fail in so many different ways.”
-- Samuel McChord Crothers

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“The test of real literature is that it will bear repetition. We read over the same pages again and again, and always with fresh delight.”
-- Samuel McChord Crothers

Source : Samuel McChord Crothers (1903). “The Gentle Reader”

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“Positive thinking is the key which unlocks the doors of the world.”
-- Samuel McChord Crothers

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“While moral rules may be propounded by authority the fact that these were so propounded would not validate them.”

Source : "The Meaning of Life and Other Essays" by A.J. Ayer, ("The Meaning of Life"), 1990.

“I take it, therefore, to be a fact, that one's existence ends with death. I think it possible to show how this fact can be emotionally acceptable.”

“I liked the fact she understood how we all have little secret habits that seem normal enough to us, but which we know better than to mention out loud.”

“I have neither time nor disposition to enter into discussion with the Friend, and end this occasion by suggesting for her consideration the question whether, if it be true that the Lord has appointed me to do the work she has indicated, it is not probable that he would have communicated knowledge of the fact to me as well as to her.”

“The receptivity of the masses is very limited, their intelligence is small, but their power of forgetting is enormous. In consequence of these facts, all effective propaganda must be limited to a very few points and must harp on these in slogans until the last member of the public understands what you want him to understand by your slogan.”

“Americans have been remarkably devoted to the capacity for belief, to idealism. That's why we get into trouble all the time. We're always viewed as naive.”

“The trouble with quotes on the internet is that it's difficult to determine whether or not they are genuine.”

“I've always just had troubles with my family because I'm psychotic. It had nothing to do with that.”

“Prohibition has made nothing but trouble”

“Trouble is just like love, after all; it comes in unannounced and takes over before you've had a chance to reconsider, or even to think.”