Top 24 Harry A. Overstreet Quotes

#1. The happiest thing that can be said about democracy ... is that it is one of the few systems that has been willing to risk a long period of confusion and mixed purposes for the sake of giving man a chance to grow up in mind and responsibility.

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#2. Goodness is a special kind of truth and beauty. It is truth and beauty in human behavior.

Harry Allen Overstreet

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#3. At twenty-four she imagined with dread that she was growing old.

Jean Rhys

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#4. Time the devourer of everything.

Harry Allen Overstreet

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#5. One of the most important phases of maturing is that of growth from self-centering to an understanding relationship to others. A person is not mature until he has both an ability and a willingness to see himself as one among others and to do unto those others as he would have them do to him.

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#6. To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill. It is in fact the consuming illness of our time.

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#7. Images are not quite ideas, they are stiller than that, with less implication outside themselves. And they are not myth, they do not have the explanatory power; they are nearer to pure story. Nor are they always metaphors; they do not say this is that, they say this is.

Robert Hass

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#8. If you cannot teach me to fly, teach me to sing.

J.M. Barrie

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#9. Better a dish of illusion and a hearty appetite for life than a feast of reality and indigestion therewith.

Harry Allen Overstreet

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#10. Recreation is not a secondary concern for a democracy. It is a primary concern, for the kind of recreation a people make for themselves determines the kind of people they become and the kind of society they build.

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#11. Sorrow, gladness, yearning, hope, and love belong to all of us, in all times and in all places. Music is the only means whereby we feel these emotions in their universality.

Harry Allen Overstreet

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#12. To the immature, other people are not real.

Harry Overstreet

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#13. To me, any character that is conflicted inside as well as outside of themselves is always a better role to play.

Brent Sexton

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#14. If minds are truly alive they will seek out books, for books are the human race recounting its memorable experiences, confronting its problems, searching for solutions, drawing the blueprints of it futures.

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#15. I may safely predict that the education of the future will be inventive-minded. It will believe so profoundly in the high value of the inventive or creative spirit that it will set itself to develop that spirit by all means within its power.

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#16. The immature mind hops from one thing to another; the mature mind seeks to follow through.

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#17. When I later discovered that she (illustrator Faith Jaques) was a compulsive reader who loved to be alone and kept cats because they are the only pets that allow you to be both, my adoration of Jaques and her work could only increase.

Lucy Mangan

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#18. Newspapers have developed what might be called a vested interest in catastrophe. If they can spot a fight, they play up that fight. If they can uncover a tragedy, they will headline that tragedy.

Harry Allen Overstreet

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#19. Even his voice was unfair.

R.K. Lilley

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#20. A person remains immature, whatever his age, as long as he thinks of himself as an exception to the human race.

Harry Allen Overstreet

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#21. Real life is often sloppy, tragic, ugly, embarrassing, unglamorous, and not made for TV.

Jane Velez-Mitchell

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#22. There are no strangers in here, just friends you haven't met ...

Roald Dahl

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#23. The average citizen expresses pride in the American Bill of Rights and then seeks to protect his real estate by restrictive covenants.

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#24. The secret of all true persuasion is to induce the person to persuade himself.

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