Quotes about "Retirement & Later Life"

Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life. ”

Life is the farce which everyone has to perform. ”

Will you tell me, 'Oh, painting is a special art, whereas anyone can write prose passably well'? Can he, indeed? ... Can you, sir? Nay, believe me, you are either an archangel or a very bourgeois gentleman indeed if you admit to having spoken English prose all your life without knowing it. ”

For many decades now - and certainly during my adult life in academe - the Western intellectual world has not been convinced that theology is a pursuit that can be engaged in with intellectual honesty and integrity. ”

The problem was to sustain at any cost the feeling you had in the theater that you were watching a real person, yes, but an intense condensation of his experience, not simply a realistic series of episodes. ”

What is the most innocent place in any country? Is it not the insane asylum? These people drift through life truly innocent, unable to see into themselves at all. ”

The closer a man approaches tragedy the more intense is his concentration of emotion upon the fixed point of his commitment, which is to say the closer he approaches what in life we call fanaticism. ”

A playwright lives in an occupied country. And if you can't live that way you don't stay. ”

Certainly the most diverse, if minor, pastime of literary life is the game of Find the Author. ”

The theater is so endlessly fascinating because it's so accidental. It's so much like life. ”