Childhood lasts all through life. It returns to animate broad sections of adult life.... Poets will help us to find this living ch...ildhood within us, this permanent, durable immobile world.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The pendulum oscillates between these two terms: Suffering--that opens a window on the real and is the main condition of the artis...tic experience, and Boredom ... that must be considered as the most tolerable because the most durable of human evils.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Rare virtues are like rare plants or animals, things that have not been able to hold their own in the world. A virtue to be servic...eable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner but more durable metal.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The most durable thing in writing is style, and style is the most valuable investment a writer can make with his time. It pays off... slowly, your agent will sneer at it, your publisher will misunderstand it, and it will take people you have never heard of to convince them by slow degrees that the writer who puts his individual mark on the way he writes will always pay off.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Very roughly, the drama may be called that part of theatrical art which lends itself most readily to intellectual discussion; what... is left is theater. Drama is immensely durable; after a thousand critical disputes, it is still there, undiminished, ready for the next wranglers. Theater is magical and evanescent; examine it closely and it turns into tricks of lighting, or the grace of a particular gesture, or the tone of a voice--and these are not its substance, but the rubbish that is left when magic has departed. Theater is the response, the echo, which drama awakens within us when we see it on the stage.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When the delicious beauty of lineaments loses its power, it is because a more delicious beauty has appeared; that an interior and ...durable form has been disclosed.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
One theme links together these new proposals for family policy--the idea that the family is exceedingly durable. Changes in struct...ure and function and individual roles are not to be confused with the collapse of the family. Families remain more important in the lives of children than other institutions. Family ties are stronger and more vital than many of us imagine in the perennial atmosphere of crisis surrounding the subject.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
That which resembles most living one's life over again, seems to be to recall all the circumstances of it; and, to render this rem...embrance more durable, to record them in writing.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There is, indeed a more mitigated scepticism or academical philosophy, which may be both durable and useful, and which may, in par...t, be the result of this Pyrrhonism, or excessive scepticism, when its undistinguished doubts are corrected by common sense and reflection.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A pleasant comedy, which paints the manners of the age, and exposes a faithful picture of nature, is a durable work, and is transm...itted to the latest posterity. But a system, whether physical or metaphysical, commonly owes its success to its novelty; and is no sooner canvassed with impartiality than its weakness is discovered.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »