Nothing has an uglier look to us than reason, when it is not on our side.
George Savile
1897-1962. American writer, received Nobel Prize in Literature in 1949.
1. "This is a free country. Folks have a right to send me letters, and I have a right not to read them."
Categories: Freedom and Servitude
2. "The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones."
Categories: Work and Laziness
3. "The last sound on the worthless earth will be two human beings trying to launch a homemade spaceship and already quarreling about where they are going next."
Categories: Human
4. "No one is without Christianity [...] Whatever its symbol - cross or crescent or whatever - that symbol is man's reminder of his duty inside the human race."
Categories: God and Religion -:- Human
5. "Facts and truth really don't have much to do with each other."
Categories: Truth and Falsity
6. "An artist is a creature driven by demons. He don't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why."
Categories: Art and Culture
7. "A writer needs three things, experience, observation, and imagination, any two of which, at times any one of which, can supply the lack of the others."
Categories: Art and Culture -:- Reality and Imagination
8. "A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction."
Categories: Art and Culture -:- Truth and Falsity
9. "A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once."
Categories: Work and Laziness -:- Nature and Animals
10. "A man's moral conscience is the curse he had to accept from the gods in order to gain from them the right to dream."
Categories: Dreams and Desires -:- Sin and Conscience
2007, collected and compiled by Kazimierz Matan
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