Occupation: Novelist Birth: September 9, 1911 Death: August 2, 1972
Be patient, do nothing, cease striving. We find this advice disheartening and therefore unfeasible because we forget it is our own inflexible activit….
In a milieu of resignation, where the young men think of society as a closed room in which there are no values but the rejected rat race, ... it is e….
Not to teach the whole curriculum is to give up on the whole man..
The stultifying effect of the movies is not that the children see them but that their parents do, as if Hollywood provided a plausible adult recreati….
It rarely adds anything to say, "In my opinion" - not even modesty. Naturally a sentence is only your opinion; and you are not the Pope..
Few great men could pass personnel..
Nothing could be more stupid than for the communications commission to give to people who handle the means of broadcasting the inventing of what to b….
I move in a society so devoid of ordinary reality that I am continually stopping to teach good sense, to give support, to help out, as a young gangst….
The organization of American society is an interlocking system of semi-monopolies notoriously venal, an electorate notoriously unenlightened, misled ….
When we choose a man to beautify our towns, we do not automatically call on the major artists of the world. ... We now lavishly praise Frank Lloyd Wr….
An obstacle is something you see when you take your eyes off the goal Few great men could pass personnel.
Suppose you had the revolution you are talking and dreaming about. Suppose your side had won, and you had the kind of society you wanted. How would y….
Naturally, grown-up citizens are concerned about the beatniks and delinquents. ... The question is why the grownups do not, more soberly, draw the sa….
Few great men would have got past personnel..
God works in many ways His wonders to perform. But He's not a skillful mechanic. A man drived over a cliff and "by a miracle" he only breaks his back….
The family is the American fascism..
It then becomes necessary to stop short and make a choice: Either/Or. Either one drifts with their absurd system of ideas, believing that this is the….
In our truly remarkable an unexampled civil peace, where there are rarely fist fights; where no one is born, is gravely ill, or dies; where meat is e….
American society has tried so hard and so ably to defend the practice and theory of production for profit and not primarily for use that now it has s….
When the sciences are supreme, average people lose their feeling of causality..
It is by losing ourselves in inquiry, creation & craft that we become something. Civilization is a continual gift of spirit: inventions, discoveries,….