A Quotes
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“All pleasure in the world is a passing dream.”
“All pleasure is a vice because seeking pleasure is what everyone does in life, and the worst vice of all is to do what everyone else does.”
Source: The Book of Disquiet
“All pleasure is a vice, for seeking pleasure is what everybody does in life, and the only dark vice is doing what everybody does.”
“All pleasure lies in evil. But all pain lies in good.”
“All pleasure should be a little bent, don't you think?”
Source: Black Butterfly: A Lucifer Box Novel
“All pleasures contain an element of sadness.”
“All pleasures must be paid for, do not despise those that state their price.”
Source: The Rock of Tanios
“all pleasures should be taken in great leisure and are worth going into in detail; love is not like eating a quick lunch with one's hat on.”
Source: Goodness Had Nothing to Do with it: Autobiography
“All plenty which is not my God is poverty to me.”
“All plot comes from the character's trying to get something, to achieve something, wanting, desiring, longing.”
Source: From Where You Dream: The Process of Writing Fiction
“All plots are cliche.”
Source: The Writing Class
“All plots tend to move deathward. This is the nature of plots. Political plots, terrorist plots, lovers’ plots, narrative plots, plots that are part of children’s games. We edge nearer death every time we plot. It is like a contract that all must sign, the plotters as well as those who are the targets of the plot.”
Source: White Noise
“All plots tend to move deathward. This is the nature of plots.”
Source: White Noise
“All Plutophiles are based in America. If you go to other countries, they have much less of an attachment to either the existence or preservation of Pluto as a planet.”
“All poetry and music, and art of every true sort, bears witness to man's continual falling in love with beauty and his desperate attempt to induce beauty to live with him and enrich his common life.”
Source: The newborn Christian: 114 readings from J.B. Phillips
“All poetry comes from repetition.”
“All poetry has to do is to make a strong communication. All the poet has to do is listen. The poet is not an important fellow. There will also be another poet.”
“All poetry is an ordered voice, one which tries to tell you about a vision in the un-visionary language of farm, city, and love.”
“All poetry is difficult to read - The sense of it anyhow.”
Source: Poems
“All poetry is experimental poetry.”
“All poetry is misrepresentation.”
Source: Utilitarianism ; On Liberty ; Essay on Bentham: Together with Selected Writings of Jeremy Bentham and John Austin
“All poetry is political, to some degree.”
“All poetry is putting the infinite within the finite.”
“All poetry is supposed to be instructive but in an unnoticeable manner; it is supposed to make us aware of what it would be valuable to instruct ourselves in; we must deduce the lesson on
our own, just as with life.”
“All poetry like every work of art proceeds from a swift vision of things.”
Source: Louis Lambert
“All poetry, as discriminated from the various paradigms of prosody, is prayer.”
Source: Selected Poems 1930-1988
“All poets adore explosions, thunderstorms, tornadoes, conflagrations, ruins, scenes of spectacular carnage. The poetic imagination is not at all a desirable quality in a statesman.”
“All poets and story tellers alive today make a single brotherhood; they are engaged in a single work, picturing our human life. Whoever pictures life as he sees it, reassembles in his own way the details of existence which affect him deeply, and so creates a spiritual world of his own.”
“All poets are idlers, even if all idlers are not poets.”
“All poets are liars.' And they are, aren't they? Inventors of myths and stories, conjurers of emotions, and sometimes cynical pluckers of heartstrings.”
Source: Resistance, Rebellion, Life: 50 Poems Now
“All Poets are mad.”
“All poets pretend to write for immortality, but the whole tribe have no objection to present pay and present praise.”
Source: Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think
“All poets pretend to write for immortality, but the whole tribe have no objection to present pay, and present praise. Lord Burleigh is not the only statesman who has thought one hundred pounds too much for a song, though sung by Spenser; although Oliver Goldsmith is the only poet who ever considered himself to have been overpaid.”
Source: Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think
“All poets who, when reading from their own works,m experience a choked feeling, are major. For that matter, all poets who read from their own works are major, whether they choke or not.”
“All poets write bad poetry. Bad poets publish them, good poets burn them.”
“All poets, all writers are political. They either maintain the status quo, or they say, 'Something's wrong, let's change it for the better.'”
Source: Conversations with Sonia Sanchez
“All policies allowed in war and love.”
“All policies should be guided by science, not just whose voice is the loudest.”
“all policy directives which vindicate economic profitability rather than the ensue's of ethical conviction, principle and thus!, moral vindication..are but not!, the conation for championing a venerable and noble cause or end!, that which is just and right!... But rather!..they are the intemperate rapacity and morally depraved excretions of the egoistic mercenary!..whos only commitment and strive in life, is for the appeasing of ones rapacious impulse for the hoarding and coveting of worldly (material) wealth and profit!...all!, at the detriment of the innocent! ".”
“All policy is a matter of gains and losses, upsides and downsides.”
“All polishing is done by friction.”
Source: Mary Parker Follett--prophet of management: a celebration of writings from the 1920s
“All Politeness is owing to Liberty. We polish one another, and rub off our Corners and rough Sides by a sort of amicable Collision. To restrain this, is inevitably to bring a Rust upon Mens Understandings.”
“All political action aims at either preservation or change. When desiring to preserve, we wish to prevent a change for the worse; when desiring to change, we wish to bring about something better. All political action is then guided by some thought of better or worse.”
Source: What is Political Philosophy? And Other Studies
“All political activity must serve and promote the good of the human person and be based on respect for his or her dignity.”
“All political and religious systems have their root and their strength in the innate conservatism of the human mind, and its intense fear of autonomy.”
“All political arrangements, in that they have to bring a variety of widely-discordant interests into unity and harmony, necessarily occasion manifold collisions. From these collisions spring misproportions between men's desires and their powers; and from these, transgressions. The more active the State is, the greater is the number of these.”
“All political ideals, that of making the people happy is perhaps the most dangerous one. It leads invariably to the attempt to impose our scale of ‘higher’ values upon others, in order to make them realize what seems to us of greatest importance for their happiness; in order, as it were, to save their souls. It leads to Utopianism and Romanticism. We all feel certain that everybody would be happy in the beautiful, the perfect community of our dreams.”
Source: The Open Society and Its Enemies
“All political lives, unless they are cut off in midstream at a happy juncture, end in failure, because that is the nature of politics and of human affairs.”
“All political movements are basically anti-creative - since a political movement is a form of war.”
“All political movements are basically anti-creative - since a political movement is a form of war. "There's no place for impractical dreamers around here," that's what they always say. "Your writing activities will be directed, kindly stop horsing around." "As for the smoking of marijuana, it is the exploitation for the workers." Both favor alcohol and are against pot.”
Source: Conversations with William S. Burroughs