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….
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….
It is hard to grow up in a society in which one's important problems are treated as nonexistent. It is impossible to belong to it, it is hard to figh….
It is by losing himself in the objective, in inquiry, creation, and craft, that a man becomes something..
It takes application, a fine sense of value, and a powerful community-spirit for a people to have serious leisure, and this has not been the genius o….
The aim is not to give human beings real goals that warrant belief, and tasks to share in, but to re-establish "belonging," although this kind of spe….
The important thing about travel in foreign lands is that it breaks the speech habits and makes you blab less, and breaks the habitual space-feeling ….
A well-known magazine asks a man how they should refer to him, as Psychologist X, as Author X? He suggests man of letters, for that is what he is, in….
The ideal of having a real job that you risk your soul in and make good or be damned, belongs to the heroic age of capitalist enterprise, imbued with….
Naturally, grown-up citizens are concerned about the beatniks and delinquents. ... The question is why the grownups do not, more soberly, draw the sa….
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….
When a village ceases to be a community, it becomes oppressive in its narrow conformity. So one becomes an individual and migrates to the city. There….
There is the dumb silence of slumber or apathy... the fertile silence of awareness, pasturing the soul... the silence of peaceful accord with other p….
To translate, one must have a style of his own, for the translation will have no rhythm or nuance, which come from the process of artistically thinki….
To consider powerful souls as if they were a useful public resource is quite foreign to our customs. In a small sense it is undemocratic, for it assu….
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 problem of translation is to retreat to a simpler tenor of one's own style and creatively adjust this to one's author..
A good teacher feels his way, looking for response..
The family is the American fascism..
All men are creative but few are artists..