quotes about Newcomers

“Loss is essential, loss is part and parcel of that necessary calamity called life. Mind you, I'm not complaining. Thanks to some inexplicable universal guiding force, it is always the worthless things we lose - slough off, like a moulting snake. Losing and losing again, is the very basis of the process, til all we are left with is the bare essence of human existence.”

“And it's very, very funny When you've lots and lots of money To be horrible to those with none! Be horrible to those with none!”

“Working on stage is really a great voice developer.”

“Growing up in public is especially hard sometimes.”

“M. J. Putney has created true magic with this book, the kind that comes when you curl up in a comfortable armchair and let the story take your imagination away. Come visit an enchanted eighteenth-century England and meet two desperate lovers caught in the web of a sinister lord with great magical power. Romantic and lyrical, this tale will fill your reading time with pleasure. I loved it.”

“To love yourself right now, just as you are, is to give yourself heaven. Don't wait until you die. If you wait, you die now. If you love, you live now.”

“For there is no virtue, the honour and credit for which procures a man more odium from the elite than that of justice; and this, because more than any other, it acquires a man power and authority among the common people. For they only honour the valiant and admire the wise, while in addition they also love just men, and put entire trust and confidence in them.”

“I think I'm a good judge of character.”

“No man should escape our universities without knowing how little he knows.”

Source : 1967 In Partisan Review, Summer issue.

“Although wrongs have been done me I live in hope. ... Now we are together again to make peace.”