All books are divisible into two classes: the books of the hours, and the books of all Time.
John RuskinStichwörter: books classics popularity
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Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self."
[The New Statesman, February 25, 1933]
Stichwörter: writing popularity principles faithfulness populism standards
Nobody comes here anymore, its too crowded
Yogi BerraStichwörter: humor paradox popularity trends
Perhaps the less we have, the more we are required to brag.
John SteinbeckStichwörter: popularity boasting
His habit of reading isolated him: it became such a need that after being in company for some time he grew tired and restless; he was vain of the wider knowledge he had acquired from the perusal of so many books, his mind was alert, and he had not the skill to hide his contempt for his companions' stupidity. They complained that he was conceited; and, since he excelled only in matters which to them were unimportant, they asked satirically what he had to be conceited about. He was developing a sense of humour, and found that he had a knack of saying bitter things, which caught people on the raw; he said them because they amused him, hardly realising how much they hurt, and was much offended when he found that his victims regarded him with active dislike. The humiliations he suffered when he first went to school had caused in him a shrinking from his fellows which he could never entirely overcome; he remained shy and silent. But though he did everything to alienate the sympathy of other boys he longed with all his heart for the popularity which to some was so easily accorded. These from his distance he admired extravagantly; and though he was inclined to be more sarcastic with them than with others, though he made little jokes at their expense, he would have given anything to change places with them.
W. Somerset MaughamStichwörter: reading books isolation popularity
My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.
Adlai E. Stevenson IIStichwörter: freedom popularity
I am not one of those weak-spirited, sappy Americans who want to be liked by all the people around them. I don’t care if people hate my guts; I assume most of them do. The important question is whether they are in a position to do anything about it. My affections, being concentrated over a few people, are not spread all over Hell in a vile attempt to placate sulky, worthless shits.
William S. BurroughsStichwörter: hell popularity
High School: Oh, man. This is where boys and girls go from tweens to teens and become complicated and cruel. Girls play sick mind games; boys try to pull each other's penises off and throw them in the bushes. If you can, buy the most expensive jeans in a two-hundred-mile radius of your town and wear them on your first day. If anyone asks how you could afford them say that your father is the president of Ashton Kutcher. When they are like, 'Ashton Kutcher has a president?' answer, 'Yes.' Everyone will be in awe of you and you won't have to go through a lot of pain and cat fights.
Eugene MirmanStichwörter: humor school popularity
Really Hagrid, if you are holding out for universal popularity, I'm afraid you will be in this cabin for a very long time
J.K. RowlingStichwörter: popularity
But there was another class of people, the real people. To this class they all belonged, and in it the great thing was to be elegant, generous, plucky, gay, to abandon oneself without a blush to every passion, and to laugh at everything else.
Leo TolstoyStichwörter: humor society popularity russia
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