Watching live actors onstage, in something that changes night by night, real people picking up cues from each other, it concentrates you on the process rather than the result.
Who heeds not experience, trust him not.
Loyalty is the greatest quality of the human heart.
And we who have toiled for freedom's law, have we sought for freedom's soul? Have we learned at last that human right is not a part but the whole?
Each heart holds the secret: 'Kindness' is the word.
Doubt is brother-devil to Despair.
The adoption of gloves for all contests will do more to preserve the practice of boxing than any other conceivable means. It will give pugilism new life, not only as a professional boxer's art, but as a general exercise.
I got a job as soon as I graduated from school. I always wanted to bartend because I love listening to people and how awful their lives are.
The motivation to paint seems more pure, or at least more personal, when the artist is doing it for herself.
In the first few pages, Kundera discusses several abstract historical figures: Robespierre, Nietzsche, Hitler. For Eunice's sake, I wanted him to get to the plot, to introduce actual "living" characters - I recalled this was a love story - and to leave the world of ideas behind. Here we were, two people lying in bed, Eunice's worried head propped on my collarbone, and I wanted us to feel something in common. I wanted this complex language, this surge of intellect, to be processed into love. Isn't that how they used to do it a century ago, people reading poetry to one another?
The only way to not get criticized is to not do anything.