Stephen Vizinczey quotes
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“When you close your eyes to tragedy, you close your eyes to greatness.”
-- Stephen VizinczeySource : Stephen Vizinczey (1988). “Truth and Lies in Literature: Essays and Reviews”, p.189, University of Chicago Press
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“Consistency is a virtue for trains.”
-- Stephen VizinczeySource : Stephen Vizinczey (1988). “Truth and Lies in Literature: Essays and Reviews”, p.83, University of Chicago Press
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“Art experts are unfailingly opposed to Art for the simple reason that they are interested in Art - but Art is not interested in Art. Art is interested in life.”
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“Thou shalt not let a day pass without rereading something great.”
-- Stephen VizinczeySource : Stephen Vizinczey (1988). “Truth and Lies in Literature: Essays and Reviews”, p.8, University of Chicago Press
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“Perhaps in a book review it is not out of place to note that the safety of the state depends on cultivating the imagination.”
-- Stephen VizinczeySource : Stephen Vizinczey (1988). “Truth and Lies in Literature: Essays and Reviews”, p.105, University of Chicago Press
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“All great power has to do to destroy itself is persist in trying to do the impossible.”
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“The war against Vietnam is only the ghastliest manifestation of what I'd call imperial provincialism, which afflicts America's whole culture-aware only of its own history, insensible to everything which isn't part of the local atmosphere.”
-- Stephen VizinczeySource : Stephen Vizinczey (1988). “Truth and Lies in Literature: Essays and Reviews”, p.197, University of Chicago Press
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“Whenever you hear the word "inevitable", watch out! An enemy of humanity has identified himself.”
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“Dictatorship is a constant lecture instructing you that your feelings, your thoughts and desires are of no account, that you are a nobody and must live as you are told by other people who desire and think for you”
-- Stephen VizinczeySource : Stephen Vizinczey “Truth and Lies in Literature, A Writer's Ten Commandments: (Revised and Extended edition)”, stephenvizinczey.com
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“Like all wage slaves, he had two crosses to bear: the people he worked for and the people he worked with”
-- Stephen VizinczeySource : Stephen Vizinczey (1990). “An Innocent Millionaire”, p.123, University of Chicago Press
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“The only virtue a character needs to possess between hardcovers, even if he bears a real person's name, is vitality: if he comes to life in our imaginations, he passes the test.”
-- Stephen VizinczeySource : Stephen Vizinczey (1988). “Truth and Lies in Literature: Essays and Reviews”, p.198, University of Chicago Press
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“The truth is that our race survived ignorance; it is our scientific genius that will do us in.”
-- Stephen VizinczeySource : Stephen Vizinczey “Truth and Lies in Literature, A Writer's Ten Commandments: (Revised and Extended edition)”, stephenvizinczey.com
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“Powerful men in particular suffer from the delusion that human beings have no memories. I would go so far as to say that the distinguishing trait of powerful men is the psychotic certainty that people forget acts of infamy as easily as their parents birth”
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“As a rule, the most dangerous ideas are not the ones that divide people but those on which they agree.”
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“Most bad books get that way because their authors are engaged in trying to justify themselves. If a vain author is an alcoholic, then the most sympathetically portrayed character in his book will be an alcoholic. This sort of thing is very boring for outsiders.”
-- Stephen VizinczeySource : Stephen Vizinczey “Truth and Lies in Literature, A Writer's Ten Commandments: (Revised and Extended edition)”, stephenvizinczey.com
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“We now have a whole culture based on the assumption that people know nothing and so anything can be said to them.”
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“Is it possible that I am not alone in believing that in the dispute between Galileo and the Church, the Church was right and the centre of man's universe is the earth?”
-- Stephen VizinczeySource : Stephen Vizinczey (1988). “Truth and Lies in Literature: Essays and Reviews”, p.269, University of Chicago Press
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“You tell me your favorite novelists and I'll tell you whom you vote for, or whether you vote at all.”
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“Consistency is a virtue for trains: what we want from a philosopher is insights, whether he comes by them consistently or not.”
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“Great writers are not those who tell us we shouldn’t play with fire, but those who make our fingers burn.”
-- Stephen VizinczeySource : Stephen Vizinczey (1988). “Truth and Lies in Literature: Essays and Reviews”, p.161, University of Chicago Press
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“Strange as it may seem, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and formal education positively fortifies it.”
-- Stephen VizinczeySource : Stephen Vizinczey (1988). “Truth and Lies in Literature: Essays and Reviews”, p.96, University of Chicago Press
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