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.
When you close your eyes to tragedy, you close your eyes to greatness. - Stephen Vizinczey
When you close your eyes to tragedy, you close your eyes to greatness.
- Stephen Vizinczey
We now have a whole culture based on the assumption that people know nothing and so anything can be said to them. - Stephen Vizinczey
We now have a whole culture based on the assumption that people know nothing and so anything can be said to them.
The truth is that our race survived ignorance; it is our scientific genius that will do us in. - Stephen Vizinczey
The truth is that our race survived ignorance; it is our scientific genius that will do us in.
To state a lie firmly, categorically and with great authority, undeterred by the fact that all concerned know it to be a lie, is one of the principal… - Stephen Vizinczey
To state a lie firmly, categorically and with great authority, undeterred by the fact that all concerned know it to be a lie, is one of the principal…
Strange as it may seem, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and formal education positively fortifies it. - Stephen Vizinczey
Strange as it may seem, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and formal education positively fortifies it.
Dictatorship is a constant lecture instructing you that your feelings, your thoughts and desires are of no account, that you are a nobody and must li… - Stephen Vizinczey
Dictatorship is a constant lecture instructing you that your feelings, your thoughts and desires are of no account, that you are a nobody and must li…
As a rule, the most dangerous ideas are not the ones that divide people but those on which they agree. - Stephen Vizinczey
As a rule, the most dangerous ideas are not the ones that divide people but those on which they agree.
You tell me your favorite novelists and I'll tell you whom you vote for, or whether you vote at all. - Stephen Vizinczey
You tell me your favorite novelists and I'll tell you whom you vote for, or whether you vote at all.
Like all wage slaves, he had two crosses to bear: the people he worked for and the people he worked with - Stephen Vizinczey
Like all wage slaves, he had two crosses to bear: the people he worked for and the people he worked with
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