Vida Dutton Scudder quotes

“It is through creating, not possessing, that life is revealed.”
-- Vida Dutton Scudder

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“Luxury, like a minimum wage, is a relationship; it changes as we change.”
-- Vida Dutton Scudder

Source : Vida Dutton Scudder (1939). “The privilege of age: essays secular and spiritual”

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“The worst danger of the mystic is as always a quest of spiritual privilege leading to aloofness from the common lot.”
-- Vida Dutton Scudder

Source : Vida Dutton Scudder (1939). “The privilege of age: essays secular and spiritual”

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“the suppression of war is not the equivalent of peace.”
-- Vida Dutton Scudder

Source : Vida Dutton Scudder (1939). “The privilege of age: essays secular and spiritual”

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“war to win peace is at best a dangerously illogical method.”
-- Vida Dutton Scudder

Source : Vida Dutton Scudder (1939). “The privilege of age: essays secular and spiritual”

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“Reality, like beauty, is in relationship and there only.”
-- Vida Dutton Scudder

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“An element of abstention, of restraint, must enter into all finer joys.”
-- Vida Dutton Scudder

Source : Vida Dutton Scudder (1939). “The privilege of age: essays secular and spiritual”

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“I think it's time to stop carping on the blunders of the President and give him some credit for creativity. I mean, where do you even FIND a Jewish hard-line conservative Republican pot-smoker? Sounds like an Oprah Winfrey guest.”

“Arthur V. Berger commenting on the music of Aaron Copland: Here is at last an American that we may place unapologetically beside the great recognized creative figures of any other country.”

“A nation must be embraced, rehabilitated and expressed as a tangible sign of human creativity and as an integral element of mankinds heritage.”

“I was attracted to photography because it was technical, full of gadgets, and I was obsessed with science. But at some point around fifteen or sixteen, I had a sense that photography could provide a bridge from the world of science to the world of art, or image. Photography was a means of crossing into a new place I didn't know.”

“The one thing that cannot be outsourced is creativity. We have to find ways to support creative people because the only way we are going to improve our laws... is by creating our way out of it.”

“Creating something new is easy, creating something that lasts is the challenge.”

Source : Adam Braun (2015). “The Promise of a Pencil: How an Ordinary Person Can Create Extraordinary Change”, p.171, Simon and Schuster

“What then are doing if not creating a better place together? I think, for me the key has to be, what do I want to create? What is it I want to leave behind?”

“Christ is not a reservoir but a spring. His life is continual, active and ever passing on with an outflow as necessary as its inflow. If we do not perpetually draw the fresh supply from the living Fountain, we shall either grow stagnant or empty, It is, therefore, not so much a perpetual fullness as a perpetual filling.”

“We are all mediums for our own basic truths. All we really have in life is the primal force that moves us through our days--our unvarnished, untutored, ever-present, inborn agency.”

Source : "The Silent Wife".

“Life is much shorter than I imagined it to be.”

Source : Abraham Cahan (2013). “The Rise of David Levinsky”, p.8, Courier Corporation