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· <blockquote><a href="http://quotationsbook.com/author/7455/">Quotes by <em>Vizinczey, Stephen</em></a></blockquote><br> From <a href="http://quotationsbook.com">Quotations Book</a> ·

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"Perhaps in a book review it is not out of place to note that the safety of the state depends on cultivating the imagination."

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"As both capitalist and communist states -- not to mention the technological world --have evolved under the illusion that men purposefully built them, ideological optimism seeps into every niche of our lives. It is made worse by mass culture which feeds our"

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"We now have a whole culture based on the assumption that people know nothing and so anything can be said to them."

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"Powerful men in particular suffer from the delusion that human beings have no memories. I would go so far as to say that the distinguishing trait of powerful men is the psychotic certainty that people forget acts of infamy as easily as their parents birth"

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"Strange as it may seem, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and formal education positively fortifies it."

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"When you close your eyes to tragedy, you close your eyes to greatness."

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"The only virtue a character needs to possess between hardcovers, even if he bears a real person's name, is vitality: if he comes to life in our imaginations, he passes the test."

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"Is it possible that I am not alone in believing that in the dispute between Galileo and the Church, the Church was right and the center of man's universe is the earth?"

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"Most bad books get that way because their authors are engaged in trying to justify themselves. If a vain author is an alcoholic, then the most sympathetically portrayed character in his book will be an alcoholic. This sort of thing is very boring for outsiders."

Vizinczey, Stephen · Writers and Writing · 1 fans >>
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"Consistency is a virtue for trains: what we want from a philosopher is insights, whether he comes by them consistently or not."

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