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Stephen Vizinczey, born on May 12, 1933, is a renowned author from Hungary. His works are known for their profound psychological insights and unique narrative style, with notable titles including 'Love and Money'.

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“Thou shalt not let a day pass without rereading something great.”

Greatness Rereading

Book:Truth and Lies in Literature: Essays and Reviews

Source: Truth and Lies in Literature: Essays and Reviews

“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.”

Art Reason Interest Simple Art Is Experts Not Interested

Author:Stephen Vizinczey

“All great power has to do to destroy itself is persist in trying to do the impossible.”

Trying Impossible Persist Great Power

Author:Stephen Vizinczey

“Consistency is a virtue for trains.”

Virtue Train Consistency

Book:Truth and Lies in Literature: Essays and Reviews

Source: Truth and Lies in Literature: Essays and Reviews

“To state a lie firmly, categorically and with great authority, undeterred by the fact that all concerned know it to be a lie, is one of the principal activities defined by the term practising law.”

Knows States Facts Law Lying Term Activity Authority Concerned Defined Principal Great Author

Author:Stephen Vizinczey

“To be great is to assume great concerns.”

Concern Assuming

Author:Stephen Vizinczey

“Strange as it may seem, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and formal education positively fortifies it.”

May Seems Stupid Strange Amount Stupidity Silly Cures Formal Positively Strangeness Formal Education

Book:Truth and Lies in Literature: Essays and Reviews

Source: Truth and Lies in Literature: Essays and Reviews

“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”

People Men Humans Suffering Parent Memories Human Beings Forget Powerful Power Particular Birth Certainty Delusion Traits Psychotic Infamy No Memory Powerful Man

Author:Stephen Vizinczey

“As a rule, the most dangerous ideas are not the ones that divide people but those on which they agree.”

People Ideas Work Dangerous Agree Divides Dangerous Ideas

Author:Stephen Vizinczey

“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.”

Ifs Way Writing Trying Book Character Boring Vain Engaged Justify Outsiders Alcoholics

Book:Truth and Lies in Literature, A Writer's Ten Commandments: (Revised and Extended edition)

Source: Truth and Lies in Literature, A Writer's Ten Commandments: (Revised and Extended edition)

“We now have a whole culture based on the assumption that people know nothing and so anything can be said to them.”

People Knows Said Whole Culture Assumption

Author:Stephen Vizinczey

“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?”

Men Believe Art Earth Universe Church Centre Disputes Not Alone

Book:Truth and Lies in Literature: Essays and Reviews

Source: Truth and Lies in Literature: Essays and Reviews

“You tell me your favorite novelists and I'll tell you whom you vote for, or whether you vote at all.”

Vote Novelists Your Favorite

Author:Stephen Vizinczey

“Consistency is a virtue for trains: what we want from a philosopher is insights, whether he comes by them consistently or not.”

Want Virtue Train Philosopher Insight Consistent Consistently Consistency

Book:Truth and Lies in Literature: Essays and Reviews

Source: Truth and Lies in Literature: Essays and Reviews

“Great writers are not those who tell us we shouldn’t play with fire, but those who make our fingers burn.”

Play Fire Fingers Great Writers

Book:Truth and Lies in Literature: Essays and Reviews

Source: Truth and Lies in Literature: Essays and Reviews

“The truth is that our race survived ignorance; it is our scientific genius that will do us in.”

Inspirational Race Ignorance Health Genius Truth Is Medicine Survived

Book:Truth and Lies in Literature, A Writer's Ten Commandments: (Revised and Extended edition)

Source: Truth and Lies in Literature, A Writer's Ten Commandments: (Revised and Extended edition)

“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.”

Ifs Needs Persons Real Character Names Imagination Virtue Bears Tests Vitality Real Person

Book:Truth and Lies in Literature: Essays and Reviews

Source: Truth and Lies in Literature: Essays and Reviews

“When you close your eyes to tragedy, you close your eyes to greatness.”

Eye Greatness Tragedy

Book:Truth and Lies in Literature: Essays and Reviews

Source: Truth and Lies in Literature: Essays and Reviews

“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”

People Thinking Feelings Desire Accounts Constant Dictatorship Lectures Lecturing

Book:Truth and Lies in Literature, A Writer's Ten Commandments: (Revised and Extended edition)

Source: Truth and Lies in Literature, A Writer's Ten Commandments: (Revised and Extended edition)

“Whenever you hear the word "inevitable", watch out! An enemy of humanity has identified himself.”

Humanity Enemy Watches Creative Inevitable

Author:Stephen Vizinczey

“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.”

War Whole America Culture Locals Atmosphere Manifestation Vietnam Vietnam War Insensible Provincialism

Book:Truth and Lies in Literature: Essays and Reviews

Source: Truth and Lies in Literature: Essays and Reviews

“Like all wage slaves, he had two crosses to bear: the people he worked for and the people he worked with”

People Two Bears Crosses Slave Wages Crosses To Bear Wage Slaves

Book:An Innocent Millionaire

Source: An Innocent Millionaire

“Perhaps in a book review it is not out of place to note that the safety of the state depends on cultivating the imagination.”

Book States Imagination Depends Safety Notes Reviews Cultivating Book Review

Book:Truth and Lies in Literature: Essays and Reviews

Source: Truth and Lies in Literature: Essays and Reviews

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Born: May 12, 1933
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