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]
Tags: writing popularity principles faithfulness populism standards
God is a mean-spirited, pugnacious bully bent on revenge against His children for failing to live up to his impossible standards.
Walt WhitmanTags: children revenge standards bully mean pugnacious
[O]ne person's 'barbarian' is another person's 'just doing what everybody else is doing.
Susan SontagTags: perception morality perspective society civilization prejudice culture normalcy double-standards standards barbarians
Animals are reliable, many full of love, true in their affections, predictable in their actions, grateful and loyal. Difficult standards for people to live up to.
Alfred A. MontapertTags: love animals people live standards loyal
My theory on literature is an author who does not indulge in trashiness-writes about people you could introduce into your own home...he did not care to read a book or go to a play about people he would not care to meet at his own dinner table. I believe we should live by certain standards and ideals...
Booth TarkingtonTags: people literature standards
Aspire to decency. Practice civility toward one another. Admire and emulate ethical behavior wherever you find it. Apply a rigid standard of morality to your lives; and if, periodically, you fail as you surely will adjust your lives, not the standards.
Ted KoppelTags: morality standards ethic civility
When you are from a well-respected family, often times you will have pressure to "live up to your family name." That is to say, depending on your family's reputation, you will have to live in accordance with that reputation so that other people keep thinking of your family in the way it is used to being thought of. If you come from a family of do-gooders, then it is important to do good. If you come from a family of investors, it is important to make lots of money. If you come from a family of plastic surgeons, you should know how to pick a nose. And if you do not live up to your family name, then possibly your family will disown you. Which isn't really nice, but can happen.
Adrienne KressAs with marathon runs and lengths of toilet paper, there had to be standards to measure up to.
Haruki MurakamiTags: standards
I love classic beauty. It’s an idea of beauty with no standard.
Karl LagerfeldTags: life love women creativity taste standards image idea look standard fashion-designer classic-beauty
God is the only being who is good, and the standards are set by Him. Because God hates sin, He has to punish those guilty of sin. Maybe that's not an appealing standard. But to put it bluntly, when you get your own universe, you can make your own standards.
Francis ChanTags: sin christian standards crazy-love francis-chan
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