“Truths are immortal, my dear friend; they are immortal like God! What we call a falsity is like a fruit; it has a certain number of days; it is bound to decay. Whereas, what we call truth is like gold; days, months, even centuries can hide gold, can overlook it but they can never make it decay.” TruthCertainNumbersCenturyMonthsTruth IsGoldFruitBoundsDearImmortalDecayDear FriendFalsity Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan
“The world's in a bad way, my man, And bound to be worse before it mends; Better lie up in the mountain here Four or five centuries, While the stars go over the lonely ocean.” MenWorldWayLyingStarsFiveFourCenturyMountainOceanLonelyBounds Book:The Selected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers Source: The Selected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers
“The Anglo-American tradition is much more linear than the European tradition. If you think about writers like Borges, Calvino, Perec or Marquez, they're not bound in the same sort of way. They don't come out of the classic 19th-century novel, which is where all the problems start. 19th-century novels are fabulous and we should all read them, but we shouldn't write them.” IfsThinkingWayShouldWritingProblemNovelCenturyTraditionBoundsClassicFabulous19th CenturyLinearBorgesAmerican TraditionMarquez Author:Jeanette Winterson
“Also our fellow competitors, who are indeed the people just mentioned - we do not compete with men who lived a hundred centuries ago, or those yet not born, or the dead, or those who dwell near the Pillars of Hercules, or those whom, in our opinion or that of others, we take to be far below us or far above us. So too we compete with those who follow the same ends as ourselves; we compete with our rivals in sport or in love, and generally with those who are after the same things; and it is therefore these whom we are bound to envy beyond all others. Hence the saying.” PeopleMenEndsSportsBornOpinionCenturyHuman NatureHundredFellowsBoundsEnvyCompetitorsRivalsPillars Author:Aristotle
“Man's drive for self-expression, which over the centuries has built his monuments, does not stay within its bounds; the creations which yesterday were detested and the obscene become the classics of today.” MenDoeSelfTodayJusticeCenturyCreationExpressionBuiltBoundsYesterdayMonumentSelf ExpressionObscene Author:Mathew Tobriner
“As far as I can see, the history of experimental art in the twentieth century is intimately bound up with the experience of intoxification.” ArtI CanCenturyBoundsTwentieth Century Author:Will Self
“By 18th century standards, they [Great Britain] were the freest, most dynamic, most willing to challenge tradition and authority. They had the highest wages and highest living standard, and probably the most engagement between the populace and the government of any country. Then the United States took those same qualities to the nth degree, and the British were suddenly appeared stodgy and tradition-bound.” CountryStatesGovernmentChallengesUnitedQualityUnited StatesCenturyWillingDegreesAuthorityHighestStandardsTraditionBoundsBritishBritainEngagementWagesGreat Britain18th Century Author:Charles R. Morris