The audience is the controlling factor in the actor’s life. It is practically infallible, since there is no appeal from its verdict. It is a little like a supreme court composed of irresponsible minors.
AGNES REPPLIERI am seventy years old, a gray age weighted with uncompromising biblical allusions. It ought to have a gray outlook, but it hasn’t, because a glint of dazzling sunshine is dancing merrily ahead of me.
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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The delusions of the past seem fond and foolish. The delusions of the present seem subtle and sane.
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Conversation between Adam and Eve must have been difficult at times, because they had nobody to talk about.
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People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization.
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If history in the making be a fluid thing, it swiftly crystallizes.
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The great dividing line between books that are made to be read and books that are made to be bought is not the purely modern thing it seems. We can trace it, if we try, back to the first printing-presses.
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This is the sphinx of the hearthstone, the little god of domesticity, whose presence turns a house into a home.
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Diaries tell their little tales with a directness, a candor, conscious or unconscious, a closeness of outlook, which gratifies our sense of security. Reading them is like gazing through a small clear pane of glass. We may not see far and wide, but we see very distinctly that which comes within our field of vision.
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Neatness of phrase is so closely akin to wit that it is often accepted as its substitute.
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No rural community, no suburban community, can ever possess the distinctive qualities that city dwellers have for centuries given to the world.
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When the contemplative mind is a French mind, it is content, for the most part, to contemplate France. When the contemplative mind is an English mind, it is liable to be seized at any moment by an importunate desire to contemplate Morocco or Labrador.
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There is an optimism which nobly anticipates the eventual triumph of great moral laws, and there is an optimism which cheerfully tolerates unworthiness.
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The worst in life, we are told, is compatible with the best in art. So too the worst in life is compatible with the best in humour.
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the labors of the true critic are more essential to the author, even, than to the reader.
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An historian without political passions is as rare as a wasp without a sting.
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Wit is a pleasure-giving thing, largely because it eludes reason; but in the apprehension of an absurdity through the working of the comic spirit there is a foundation of reason, and an impetus to human companionship.
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