Elizabeth Drew Quotes

#1. The pain of loss, moreover, however agonizing, however haunting in memory, quiets imperceptibly into acceptance as the currents of active living and of fresh emotions flow over it.

Elizabeth Drew

#2. The Republicans' plan is that if they can't buy the 2012 election they will steal it.

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#3. The inspired scribbler always has the gift for gossip in our common usage he or she can always inspire the commonplace with an uncommon flavor, and transform trivialities by some original grace or sympathy or humor or affection.

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#4. It takes two to write a letter as much as it takes two to make a quarrel.

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#5. And as the story unfolded before the Ervin committee, it began to take on the characteristics of a Russian novel. Someone we had never heard of suddenly emerged as an agent in activities that were almost inconceivable.

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#6. Democracy, like any non-coercive relationship, rests on a shared understanding of limits.

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#7. The torment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital force and "mangled mind" leaking away in lonely, wasteful self-conflict.

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#8. Propaganda has a bad name, but its root meaning is simply to disseminate through a medium, and all writing therefore is propaganda for something. It's a seeding of the self in the consciousness of others.

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#9. The test of literature is, I suppose, whether we ourselves live more intensely for the reading of it.

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#10. [On newspapers:] A first draft of history.

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#11. The world is not run by thought, nor by imagination, but by opinion.

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#12. Too often travel, instead of broadening the mind, merely lengthens the conversation.

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#13. Language is like soil. However rich, it is subject to erosion, and its fertility is constantly threatened by uses that exhaust itsvitality. It needs constant re-invigoration if it is not to become arid and sterile.

Elizabeth Drew