Quotes on Doe

The true artist is quite rational as well as imaginative and knows what he is doing; if he does not, his art suffers.

The profession of the writer has its thorns about which the reader does not dream.

A thing which I regret, and which I will try to remedy some time, is that I have never in my life planted a walnut. Nobody does plant them nowadays-when you see a walnut it is almost invariably an old tree. If you plant a walnut you are planting it for your grandchildren, and who cares a damn for his grandchildren?

He who does not understand the supreme certainty of mathematics is wallowing in confusion.

Everything is tedious when one does not read with the feeling of the Author.

Christian marriage is marked by discipline and self-denial...C hristianity does not therefore depreciate marriage, it sanctifies it.

Travel ennobles the spirit and does away with our prejudices.

New York City does not hold our former selves against us. Perhaps we can extend the same courtesy.

Sometimes it takes darkness and the sweet_x000D_ confinement of your aloneness_x000D_ to learn_x000D_ anything or anyone_x000D_ that does not bring you alive_x000D_ is too small for you.

When one does not have what one wants, one must want what one has.

The accent of a man's native country remains in his mind and his heart, as it does in his speech.

Love often leads on to ambition, but seldom does one return from ambition to love.

There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.

He who does not know how to look back at where he came from will never get to his destination.

To have privilege in one or more areas does not mean you are wholly privileged. Surrendering to the acceptance of privilege is difficult, but it is really all that is expected. What I remind myself, regularly, is this: the acknowledgment of my privilege is not a denial of the ways I have been and am marginalized, the ways I have suffered.

Indeed, theological discourse offers its strange jubilation only to the strict extent that it permits and, dangerously, demands of it wokman that he speak beyond his means, precisely because he does not speak of himself. Hence the danger of a speech that, in a sense, speaks against the one who lends himself to it. One must obtain forgiveness for every essay in theology. In all senses.

The ruling passion of the age is to convert wealth into debt in order to_x000D_ derive a permanent future income from it - to convert wealth that perishes_x000D_ into debt that endures, debt that does not rot, costs nothing to maintain,_x000D_ and brings in perennial interest.

The capitalist class rules but does not govern: it contents itself with ruling the government.

Just as worship begins in holy expectancy, it ends in holy obedience. If worship does not propel us into greater obedience, it has not been worship.

The purpose of the painter is simply to reproduce in other minds the impression which a scene has made upon him. A work of art does not appeal to the intellect. It does not appeal to the moral sense. Its aim is to instruct, not to edify, but to awaken an emotion.

You can solve most of your writing problems if you stop after every sentence and ask: what does the reader need to know next?