Quotes - October 28, 2010

[Warmsoul/Jeanie13]

Thanks Stephen.

Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed.
-- Elbert Hubbard

Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard, "Artist Descending a Staircase"

There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income.
-- Edmund Wilson

Coming home from very lonely places, all of us go a little mad: whether from great personal success, or just an all-night drive, we are the sole survivors of a world no one else has ever seen.
-- John le Carre, "The Chancellor Who Agreed To Play Spy", The New York Times, May 8, 1974