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Thomas Mann Quotes

For I must tell you that we artists cannot tread the path of Beauty without Eros keeping company with us and appointing himself as our guide.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: german
Birth: June 6, 1875 - August 12, 1955

Topics

Beauty Path You Company Without Us

It was okay for Wayne Gretzky's dad, for instance, to give him a hockey stick, or Joe Montana's dad to give him a football, or Larry Bird's dad to give him a basketball, but it wasn't okay for Gloria Connors to give her son a tennis racquet.

Son Bird Football Basketball Hockey

When applied to politics and taken to its extreme, kitsch is the mask of death. Fascism was all aesthetics. There was no core principle to it. There was no truth to it.

Truth Politics Death Mask Fascism

I love the Sonoma wine community. It's like Pixar - nothing competitive, only supportive. They're always rooting for you.

Love Community Wine You Nothing

Writing is very much perceived as something distinct from performance. I don't see it like that.

Writing Performance See Something

A founder can carry an institution only so far, and then others have to step in, even the alumni. That's how an institution becomes one.

Step Others Alumni Carry Founder

My story is a little unorthodox. At first, I just wanted to book a commercial. I didn't have any expectations, and I wanted to try something new.

Book Expectations Story New Try

I've been religiously reading the O. Henry Prize anthologies every year since college, when I first began trying to write stories. Many of the authors whose work I cherish the most were people I first learned about through The O. Henry Prize Stories - and then I'd go search for their books.

Work People College Reading Search

Touring has been a major part of my career. I've done a lot of huge shows, including a 13-night sell-out stint at the Indoor Arena in Birmingham, playing to a total audience of 65,000.

Career Done Audience Playing Been

I was later to receive an excellent first two years' graduate education in the same University and then again was able to pursue my studies in the U.S. on a fellowship from the aforementioned fund.

Education First Two Same University

Every relationship I've been in becomes long-distance because of work. It's never worked out. It puts an intense strain on the relationship, and at a certain point, it becomes too difficult.

Work Relationship Never Difficult

Happy the boy whose mother is tired of talking nonsense to him before he is old enough to know the sense of it.

Mother Tired Happy Enough Talking

People are so ready to cut you down if you take a risk and leave your comfort zone.

Annabelle Wallis

People Comfort Zone You Down Comfort

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