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“Taste is the fundamental quality which sums up all other qualities. It is the ne plus ultra of the intelligence.”

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Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont, born on April 4, 1846, was a prominent French poet. His poetry is characterized by its unique style and profound connotations, and is considered one of the pioneers of Symbolist poetry. more

“What arouses the indignation of the honest satirist is not, unless the man is a prig, the fact that people in positions of power or influence behave idiotically, or even that they behave wickedly. It is that they conspire successfully to impose upon the public a picture of themselves as so very sagacious, honest and well-intentioned.”

People Men Wells Facts Influence Honest Position He Man Behave Cynicism Indignation Satirist Position Of Power

Book:View from the West: Being the Third Volume of Autobiography

Source: View from the West: Being the Third Volume of Autobiography

“Evidently there are plenty of people in journalism who have neither got what they liked nor quite grown to like what they get. They write pieces they do not much enjoy writing, for papers they totally despise, and the sad process ends by ruining their style and disintegrating their personality, two developments which in a writer cannot be separate, since his personality and style must progress or deteriorate together, like a married couple in a country where death is the only permissible divorce.”

Source: I, Claud ...: the autobiography of Claud Cockburn

“It's much easier to do and die than it is to reason why.”

Thinking Reason Dies Easier Reason Why

Author:Geoffrey Studdert Kennedy

“We're nothing if we're not loved. When you meet somebody who is more important to you than yourself, that has to be the most important thing.”

Ifs Important Important Things

Author:Maeve Binchy

“I've been very lucky and I have a happy old age with good family and friends still around.”

Stills Age Lucky Old Age Family And Friends Good Family

Book:Maeve's Times

Source: Maeve's Times

“An English journalist called Michael Viney told me when I was 25, that I would write well if I cared a lot what I was writing about. That worked. I went home that day and wrote about parents not understanding their children as well as we teachers did, and it was published the very next week.”

Ifs Writing Wells Children Home Next Parent Understanding Teacher Week Journalist Next Week

Author:Maeve Binchy

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