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Letter "E" » Elizabeth Drew Quotes
«The test of literature is, I suppose, whether we ourselves live more intensely for the reading of it»
Author: Elizabeth Drew
(Writer)
| About:
Literature,
Reading
| Keywords:
intensely, suppose, The test
«The torment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital force and 'mangled mind' leaking away in lonely, wasteful self-conflict.»
Author: Elizabeth Drew
(Writer)
| Keywords:
frustration, immediate, leaking, leaks, leak out, mangle, mangled, torment, vital force, wasteful
«Too often travel, instead of broadening the mind, merely lengthens the conversation»
Author: Elizabeth Drew
(Writer)
| Keywords:
broaden, broadened, broadening, Broadens, conversation, lengthen, lengthened, lengthening, lengthens, The Conversation
«We read poetry because the poets, like ourselves, have been haunted by the inescapable tyranny of time and death; have suffered the pain of loss, and the more wearing, continuous pain of frustration and failure; and have had moods of unlooked-for release and peace. They have known and watched in themselves and others.»
Author: Elizabeth Drew
(Writer)
| Keywords:
and others, continuous, frustration, haunted, inescapable, moods, release, the Poets, unlooked-for, watched
«Propaganda has a bad name, but its root meaning is simply to disseminate through a medium, and all writing therefore is propaganda for something. It's a seeding of the self in the consciousness of others.»
«The world is not run by thought, nor by imagination, but by opinion»
Author: Elizabeth Drew
(Writer)
«Democracy, like any non-coercive relationship, rests on a shared understanding of limits»
«The inspired scribbler always has the gift for gossip in our common usage he or she can always inspire the commonplace with an uncommon flavor, and transform trivialities by some original grace or sympathy or humor or affection.»
Author: Elizabeth Drew
(Writer)
| Keywords:
common usage, scribbler, scribblers, transform, triviality
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