“One always has a better book in one's mind than one can manage to get onto paper.”
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American novelist and screenwriter 1952Related quotes
James Russell Lowell (1819–1891) American poet, critic, editor, and diplomat
Before the U. S. Senate Committee on Patents (29 January 1886)
“It is is better to know one book intimately than a hundred superficially.”
Donna Tartt book The Secret History
Source: The Secret History
“One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't.”
George Bernard Shaw The Apple Cart
The Apple Cart (1928), Act I
1920s
Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) 16th President of the United States
1860s, First State of the Union address (1861)
Context: It has been said that one bad general is better than two good ones, and the saying is true if taken to mean no more than that an army is better directed by a single mind, though inferior, than by two superior ones at variance and cross-purposes with each other. And the same is true in all joint operations wherein those engaged can have none but a common end in view and can differ only as to the choice of means. In a storm at sea no one on board can wish the ship to sink, and yet not unfrequently all go down together because too many will direct and no single mind can be allowed to control.
“Tackling one thing at a time, I have managed better than I would have thought possible.”
Irene Dunne (1898–1990) American actress
To Make You Hapier, by Roberta Orminston http://www.irenedunnesite.com/press/photoplay-april-1944/ Photoplay (April 1944).
