No one after lighting a lamp puts it under the bushel basket, but on the lampstand, and it gives light to all in the house. In the... same way, let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father in heaven.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 »
There's something wonderfully exciting about the quiet sing song of an aeroplane overhead with all the guns in creation lighting o...ut at it, and searchlights feeling their way across the sky like antennae, and the earth shaking snort of the bombs and the whimper of shrapnel pieces when they come down to patter on the roof.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Popular art is normally decried as vulgar by the cultivated people of its time; then it loses favor with its original audience as ...a new generation grows up; then it begins to merge into the softer lighting of "quaint," and cultivated people become interested in it, and finally it begins to take on the archaic dignity of the primitive.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision, and for whom the lighting of every cig...ar, the drinking of every cup, the time of rising and going to bed every day, and the beginning of every bit of work, are subjects of express volitional deliberation.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I don't know but a book in a man's brain is better off than a book bound in calf--at any rate it is safer from criticism. And taki...ng a book off the brain, is akin to the ticklish & dangerous business of taking an old painting off a panel--you have to scrape off the whole brain in order to get at it with due safety--& even then, the painting may not be worth the trouble.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
How soon country people forget. When they fall in love with a city it is forever, and it is like forever. As though there never wa...s a time when they didn't love it. The minute they arrive at the train station or get off the ferry and glimpse the wide streets and the wasteful lamps lighting them, they know they are born for it. There, in a city, they are not so much new as themselves: their stronger, riskier selves.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »