"He does not write at all whose..." - Quote by Marcus Aurelius
He does not write at all whose poems no man reads
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“Men are born for each other's sake, so either teach people or endure them”
“Let thy chief fort and place of defense be a mind free from passions. A stronger place and better fortified than this, hath no man.”
“Objective judgement, now, at this very moment. Unselfish action, now, at this very moment. Willing acceptance - now, at this very moment - of all external events. That's all you need.”
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“I have no delusions that I'm the only source of improving people's lives or that I'm even the right source. My style is intense, and it's not going to be right for everybody.”
“I was raped when I was very young. I told my brother the name of the person who had done it. Within a few days the man was killed. In my child's mind--seven and a half years old--I thought my voice had killed him. So I stopped talking for five years.”
“Each time we act to improve the life of another person, we send forth a ripple of hope in what appears to be a hopeless society.”
More on Audience
“A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament. Its beauty comes from the fact that the author is what he is. It has nothing to do with the fact that other people want what they want.”
“'Kitchen Confidential' wasn't a cautionary or an expose. I wrote it as an entertainment for New York tri-state area line cooks and restaurant lifers, basically; I had no expectation that it would move as far west as Philadelphia.”
“You make a movie, and if somebody reads something into it, then great, more power to him.”