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My mother was a Bloomsbury figure: a great friend of TS Eliot, Duncan Grant, Vanessa Bell. My grandmother, Mary Hutchinson, gave her life to works of art, being an admirer of Matisse and Giaometti, whom I collected as a young man because of her.

Jacob Rothschild

A man learns to skate by staggering about and making a fool of himself. Indeed he progresses in all things by resolutely making a fool of himself.

Advice to a Young Critic

Think it a vile habit to alter works of good composers, to omit parts of them, or to insert new-fashioned ornaments. This is the greatest insult you can offer to Art.

Advice to Young Musicians

I hate math. It's hard, it's stupid, and it's nature's way of separating spinsters from women who end up breeding.

Highly Inappropriate Tales for Young People

The intellectual support for UNBELIEF is about as stable as the stock market.

Killing Lions: A Guide Through the Trials Young Men Face

One of the great wonders of Christianity is that you were born into your times, to set your times aright.

Killing Lions: A Guide Through the Trials Young Men Face

To see how pretty an old woman once was, it is not enough just to look at each feature; they must be translated.

In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower

But one never finds a cathedral, a wave in a storm, a dancer's leap in the air quite as high as one has been expecting;

In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower

...but the loss of a memory, like the omission of a phrase during reading, rather than making for uncertainty, can lead to a premature certainty.

In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower

... the young people are the ones who most quickly identify with the struggle and the necessity to eliminate the evil conditions that exist.

Malcolm X, Black Liberation, and the Road to Workers' Power

They'd told him he had talent. That word was heroin to the young. Talent

Make Something Up: Stories You Can't Unread

Into the face of the young man who sat on the terrace of the Hotel Magnifique at Cannes there had crept a look of furtive shame, the shifty hangdog look which announces that an Englishman is about to speak French.

The Luck of the Bodkins

In philosophy seminars, the choice is usually between good and evil. In the real world, however, the choice is often between a bad guy and a worse guy.

Letters to a Young Conservative

I want to urge you very strongly to travel as much as you can, and to evolve yourself as an internationalist. It's as important a part of your education as a radical as the reading of any book.

Letters to a Young Contrarian

I believe that that love remains strong and intense in your memory because it was your first deep aloneness and the first inner work that you did on your life.

Letters to a Young Poet

most people come to know only one corner of their room, one spot near the window, one narrow strip on which they keep walking back and forth.

Letters to a Young Poet

Why don't you think of [God] as the one who is coming, who has been approaching from all eternity... the ultimate fruit of a tree whose leaves we are.

Letters to a Young Poet

If you will stay close to nature, to its simplicity, to the small things hardly noticeable, those things can unexpectedly become great and immeasurable.

Letters to a Young Poet

For the first six months, all whe wanted was honest labor, finely crafted novels, and surf.

Sex and Rage: Advice to Young Ladies Eager for a Good Time: A Novel

At no moment in history has a bright young girl with plenty of food and a good constitution perished from too much learning.

The Signature of All Things

In this world one is seldom reduced to make a selection between two alternatives. There are as many varieties of conduct and opinion as there are turns of feature between an aquiline nose and a flat one.

The Sorrows of Young Werther