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“It were better that we were not at all, than that we should live still in wickedness, and to suffer, and not to know wherefore.”
“Truth is great, and stronger than all things. The whole earth calls upon truth, and heaven blesses it. All God’s works quake and tremble, and with him there is nothing unrighteous. Wine is unrighteous, the king is unrighteous, women are unrighteous, all human beings are unrighteous, all their works are unrighteous, and all such things. There is no truth in them and in their unrighteousness they will perish. But truth endures and is strong forever, and lives and prevails forever and ever. With it there is no partiality or preference, but it does what is righteous instead of anything that is unrighteous or wicked. Everyone approves its deeds, and there is nothing unrighteous in its judgment. To it belongs the strength and the kingship and the power and the majesty of all the ages. Blessed be the God of truth!”
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Ezra on Cornell University 2 quotes
“The individual is better, society is better, and the state is better, for the culture of its citizens; therefore we desire to extend the means for the culture of all.”
Ezra on Starship Troopers (film) 2 quotes
“When Starship Troopers was released, critics panned it as a simplistic B-movie. Former film critic Janet Maslin called it “raunchiness tailor-made for teen-age boys” in the New York Times. It’s not a totally unfair description of a movie in which most scenes involve characters being sprayed with lime-green alien guts. ”
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Ezra on The Forward 2 quotes
“the sheer journalism that the newspaper produced over the decades: a 1934 front-page story by Israel Joshua Singer describing a rally of some 20,000 American Nazi supporters at Madison Square Garden; a 1967 profile of David Ben-Gurion by Elie Wiesel; pieces by Isaac Bashevis Singer on everything from the Lubavitcher Rebbe to experiments in hypnotism and extrasensory perception.”
Ezra on Definition
“I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.”
Ezra on Thought
“"You damn sadist!" said mr. cummings, "you try to make people think."”
Ezra on Genius
Ezra on Fasting
“So we fasted and petitioned our God about this, and He answered our prayer.”
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Ezra on Arnold Dolmetsch 2 quotes
“Has he tempered the viol’s wood To enforce both the grave and the acute? Has he curved us the bowl of the lute? Lawes and Jenkyns guard thy rest Dolmetsch ever be thy guest.”
Ezra on Walt Whitman
“I make a pact with you, Walt Whitman — I have detested you long enough.”
Ezra on Winston Churchill
Ezra on Joseph Stalin
“Stalin is the best brain in polities today. Rut that does not mean that I have become a Bolshevik.”
Ezra on Adolf Hitler
“Adolf Hitler was a Jeanne d'Arc, a saint. He was a martyr. Like many martyrs, he held extreme views.”
Ezra on Arthur Golding
“Though it is the most beautiful book in the language, I am not citing it for decorative purposes but for the narrative quality.”
Ezra on Alexander Pope
“Pope has done this so well that you cannot do it better; and if you mean this as a burlesque, you had better suppress it, for you cannot parody Pope unless you can write better verse than Pope—and you can't.”
Ezra on Benito Mussolini
“There is no doubt which I preferred between Mussolini and Roosevelt. In my radio broadcasts I spoke in favor of the economic construction of Fascism. Mussolini was a very human, imperfect character who lost his head.”
Ezra on Edith Wharton
“A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions (of which its author had quite probably never heard). It is classic because of a certain eternal and irrepressible freshness.”
Ezra on Gavin Douglas
“Gavin Douglas, set on a particular labour, with his mind full of Latin quantitative metre, attains a robuster versification than you are likely to find in Chaucer…the texture of Gavin's verse is stronger, the resilience greater.”
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