“Being different is ... interesting; there's nothing implicitly inferior or superior about it. Great difference, of course, produces natural caution; and if the differences are too extreme ... well, then, reality tends to fade away.” IfsWellsDifferentRealityCoursesNaturalDifferencesInterestingProduceExtremesSuperiorsFadesInferiorsCautionBeing DifferentFade Away Book:Seascape: The Entire Appalling Business Source: Seascape: The Entire Appalling Business
“I waited and worked, and watched the inferior exalted for nearly thirty years; and when recognition came at last, it was too late to alter events, or to make a difference in living.” YearsLastsDifferencesEventsLateRewardsRecognitionThirtyMaking A DifferenceToo LateInferiorsThirty YearsExalted Author:Ellen Glasgow
“We can all perceive the difference between ourselves and our inferiors, but when it comes to a question of the difference between us and our superiors we fail to appreciate merits of which we have no proper conceptions.” DifferencesFailingAppreciateSuperiorsPerceiveMeritConceptionInferiorsSuperiority Author:James F. Cooper
“The comparison between Coleridge and Johnson is obvious in so far as each held sway chiefly by the power of his tongue. The difference between their methods is so marked that it is tempting, but also unnecessary, to judge one to be inferior to the other. Johnson was robust, combative, and concrete; Coleridge was the opposite. The contrast was perhaps in his mind when he said of Johnson: "his bow-wow manner must have had a good deal to do with the effect produced.” MindSaidDifferencesDealsEffectsJudgingOppositesMethodObviousTongueComparisonWowContrastConcreteBowsInferiorsUnnecessaryJohnsonRobustTemptingBow Wow Book:Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated) Source: Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)