Frank Harris Quotes

#1. Such actions are beyond praise: it is the perfume of such sweet and noble human sympathy that makes this wild beasts' cage a world habitable for men.

Frank Harris

#2. I will, however, establish that success in love, as in all other aspects of life, belongs, as a rule, to the persistent and fiber man. Chaucer had reason to make the Old Bath confess: 'The truth is, more or less, we always succumb to attention and perseverance'.

Frank Harris

#3. All the faults of the age come from Christianity and journalism. Christianity, of course, but why journalism?

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#4. What will happen to those who stone the prophets and persecute the masters? His fate is written in flaming letters on each page of the history.

Frank Harris

#5. ( ... ) always regretted that good memory often prevents us from thinking for ourselves.

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#6. The truth is that the fever of desire in youth is fleeting disease that intimacy promptly cure.

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#7. There is a destiny that shapes our ends rough, hew them as we will.

Frank Harris

#8. Strong people are made by opposition like kites that go up against the wind.

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#9. Memory is the mother of the muses, prototype Artist. As a rule picks and highlights what is important, omitting what is accidental or trivial. Occasionally, however, is mistaken as all the other artists. Nevertheless it is what I take as a guide page.

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#10. Memoirs are a well-known form of fiction.

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#11. ( ... ) the easiest to conquer were also more worthy of it, because women have better intuition than men for the love affinity.

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#12. Sex is the gateway to life.

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#13. [Referring to the imprisonment of Oscar Wilde] ... Will civilization never reach humane ideals? Will men always punish most severely the sins they do not understand and which hold forth for them no temptation? Did Jesus suffer in vain?

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#14. I am, really, a great writer; my only difficulty is in finding great readers.

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#15. For the first time, vague doubts assaulted me, the shattering suspicion that for all pleasure and joy in life we had to pay ... I repel fear. If I had to pay I would pay, after all, the memory of ecstasy while pungisse its pain could never be erased.

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#16. The Christian churches were offered two things: the spirit of Jesus and the idiotic morality of Paul, and they rejected the higher inspiration ... Following Paul, we have turned the goodness of love into a fiend and degraded the crowning impulse of our being into a capital sin.

Frank Harris