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Natalie Dykstra • Chasing Beauty: The Life of Isabella Stewart Gardner
The public for which masterpieces are intended is not on this earth.
Thornton Wilder • The Bridge of San Luis Rey: A Novel (Perennial Classics)
We will be known as a culture that feared death
and adored power, that tried to vanquish insecurity
for the few and cared little for the penury of the
many. We will be known as a culture that taught
and rewarded the amassing of things, that spoke
little if at all about the quality of life for
people (other people), for dogs, for rivers. All
the world, in
... See more“Every block of stone has a statue inside it, and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it.”
John McPhee • Draft No. 4
Even in the fairytales which I had read greedily as a child I had been disturbed by the absence of pity, by the slyness and guile that was regarded as quickwittedness.
Anita Brookner • Undue Influence
We live in an age when men treat art as if it were meant to be a form of autobiography. We have lost the abstract sense of beauty.
Oscar Wilde • The Picture of Dorian Gray
“Before an author destroys the natural qualities of his writing—that’s
A. Scott Berg • Max Perkins: Editor of Genius
He was the voice in England of this humane intoxication and expansion, this encouraging of anybody to be anything. His best books are a carnival of liberty,