“Writers may be disreputable, incorrigible, early to decay or late to bloom but they dare to go it alone.”
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Existence itself does not feel horrible it feels like an ecstasy, rather, which we have only to be still to experience.
A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world.
Customs and convictions change respectable people are the last to know, or to admit, the change, and the ones most offended by fresh reflections of the facts in the mirror of art.
Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency.