Great Throughts Treasury

"I will be an artist or nothing!" - Eugene O'Neill, fully Eugene Gladstone O'Neill

"The child was diseased at birth, stricken with a hereditary ill that only the most vital men are able to shake off. I mean poverty - the most deadly and prevalent of all diseases." - Eugene O'Neill, fully Eugene Gladstone O'Neill

"Why am I afraid to live, I who love life and the beauty of flesh and the living colors of earth and sky and sea? Why am I afraid of love, I who love love? Why must I hide myself in self-contempt in order to understand? Why was I born without a skin, O God, that I must wear armor in order to touch or to be touched?" - Eugene O'Neill, fully Eugene Gladstone O'Neill

"Why canÂ’t you remember your Shakespeare and forget the third-raters. YouÂ’ll find what youÂ’re trying to say in him- as youÂ’ll find everything else worth saying. 'We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with sleep.'' 'Fine! ThatÂ’s beautiful. But I wasnÂ’t trying to say that. We are such stuff as manure is made on, so letÂ’s drink up and forget it. ThatÂ’s more my idea." - Eugene O'Neill, fully Eugene Gladstone O'Neill

"It is better to paint from memory, for thus your work will be your own." -

"It's the wise man who stays home when he's drunk." - Euripedes NULL

"Many people seem to think that the spiritual life necessarily requires a definite and exacting plan of study. It does not. But it does require a definite plan of life; and courage in sticking to the plan, not for merely days or weeks, but for years." - Evelyn Underhill

"She told me later that she had made a kind of note of me in her mind, as, scanning the shelf for a particular book, one will sometimes have one's attention caught by another, take it down, glance at the title page and saying I must read that, too, when I've the time, replace it and continue the search." - Evelyn Waugh, fully Evelyn Arthur St. John Waugh

"You have no idea how much nastier I would be if I was not a Catholic. Without supernatural aid, I would hardly be a human being." - Evelyn Waugh, fully Evelyn Arthur St. John Waugh

"It was morality that burned the books of the ancient sages, and morality that halted the free inquiry of the Golden Age and substituted for it the credulous imbecility of the Age of Faith. It was a fixed moral code and a fixed theology which robbed the human race of a thousand years by wasting them upon alchemy, heretic-burning, witchcraft and sacerdotalism." - H. L. Mencken, fully Henry Louis Mencken

"None so deaf as those who will not hear." - Italian Proverbs

"I wish I was at home in my nice hole by the fire, with the kettle just beginning to sing!" - J. R. R. Tolkien, fully John Ronald Reuel Tolkien

"I will be an artist or nothing!" - Eugene O'Neill, fully Eugene Gladstone O'Neill

"The child was diseased at birth, stricken with a hereditary ill that only the most vital men are able to shake off. I mean poverty - the most deadly and prevalent of all diseases." - Eugene O'Neill, fully Eugene Gladstone O'Neill

"Why am I afraid to live, I who love life and the beauty of flesh and the living colors of earth and sky and sea? Why am I afraid of love, I who love love? Why must I hide myself in self-contempt in order to understand? Why was I born without a skin, O God, that I must wear armor in order to touch or to be touched?" - Eugene O'Neill, fully Eugene Gladstone O'Neill

"Why canÂ’t you remember your Shakespeare and forget the third-raters. YouÂ’ll find what youÂ’re trying to say in him- as youÂ’ll find everything else worth saying. 'We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with sleep.'' 'Fine! ThatÂ’s beautiful. But I wasnÂ’t trying to say that. We are such stuff as manure is made on, so letÂ’s drink up and forget it. ThatÂ’s more my idea." - Eugene O'Neill, fully Eugene Gladstone O'Neill

"It is better to paint from memory, for thus your work will be your own." -

"It's the wise man who stays home when he's drunk." - Euripedes NULL

"Many people seem to think that the spiritual life necessarily requires a definite and exacting plan of study. It does not. But it does require a definite plan of life; and courage in sticking to the plan, not for merely days or weeks, but for years." - Evelyn Underhill

"She told me later that she had made a kind of note of me in her mind, as, scanning the shelf for a particular book, one will sometimes have one's attention caught by another, take it down, glance at the title page and saying I must read that, too, when I've the time, replace it and continue the search." - Evelyn Waugh, fully Evelyn Arthur St. John Waugh

"You have no idea how much nastier I would be if I was not a Catholic. Without supernatural aid, I would hardly be a human being." - Evelyn Waugh, fully Evelyn Arthur St. John Waugh

"It was morality that burned the books of the ancient sages, and morality that halted the free inquiry of the Golden Age and substituted for it the credulous imbecility of the Age of Faith. It was a fixed moral code and a fixed theology which robbed the human race of a thousand years by wasting them upon alchemy, heretic-burning, witchcraft and sacerdotalism." - H. L. Mencken, fully Henry Louis Mencken

"None so deaf as those who will not hear." - Italian Proverbs

"I wish I was at home in my nice hole by the fire, with the kettle just beginning to sing!" - J. R. R. Tolkien, fully John Ronald Reuel Tolkien