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Rhetoric takes no real account of the art in literature and morality takes no account of the art in life.

Joseph Wood Krutch

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Joseph Wood Krutch
Age: 76 †
Born: 1893
Born: November 25
Died: 1970
Died: May 22
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Tennessee
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In history as it comes to be written, there is usually some Spirit of the Age which historians can define, but the shape of things is seldom so clear to those who live them. To most thoughtful men it has generally seemed that theirs was an Age of Confusion.
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It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder.
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Both the cockroach and the bird would get along very well without us, although the cockroach would miss us most.
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The most serious charge which can be brought against New England is not Puritanism, but February.... Spring is too far away to comfort even by anticipation, and winter long ago lost the charm of novelty. This is the very three a.m. of the calendar.
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Only those within whose own consciousness the sun rise and set, the leaves burgeon and wither, can be said to be aware of what living is.
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Any euphemism ceases to be euphemistic after a time and the true meaning begins to show through. It's a losing game, but we keep on trying.
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As machines get to be more and more like men, men will come to be more like machines.
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If people destroy something replaceable made by mankind, they are called vandals if they destroy something irreplaceable made by God, they are called developers.
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The impulse to mar and to destroy is as ancient and almost as nearly universal as the impulse to create. The one is an easier way than the other of demonstrating power.
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To those who study her, Nature reveals herself as extraordinarily fertile and ingenious in devising means, but she has no ends which the human mind has been able to discover or comprehend.
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It is sometimes easier to head an institute for the study of child guidance than it is to turn one brat into a decent human being.
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The grand paradox of our society is this: we magnify man’s right but we minimize his capacities.
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Man is the only one in whom the instinct of life falters long enough to enable it to ask the question Why?
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The rare moment is not the moment when there is something worth looking at, but the moment when we are capable of seeing.
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Nature takes no account of even the most reasonable of human excuses.
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If we are deprived of hope as well as fear, we are compensated by being given an almost endless patience for enduring or simply for waiting.
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To have passed through life and never experienced solitude is to have never known oneself. To have never known oneself is to have never known anyone.
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What a man knows is everywhere at war with what he wants.
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The cockroach and the bird were both here long before we were. Both could.
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In a cat's eye, all things belong to cats.
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