Neville Cardus, Foreword to All On A Summer's Day.
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Source: 1960s, "The Use and Misuse of Game Theory," 1962, p. 108
“There are very few things that can be proved rigorously in condensed matter physics.”
Nobel Lecture http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/2003/leggett-lecture.pdf, December 8, 2003.
Fleet Street
Nursery Rhymes of London Town (1916)
Quoted in "The First and the Last," 1954.
The First and the Last (1954)
“There really wasn’t much in a man’s life that mattered. But those few things mattered terribly.”
Section 3 “Admiralty”, Chapter IX (p. 200)
The Star Fox (1965)
Rich Dad Poor Dad: What the Rich Teach Their Kids About Money-That the Poor and the Middle Class Do Not!
“The man must have a rare recipe for melancholy, who can be dull in Fleet Street.”
Letter to Thomas Manning (February 15, 1802)
The Paris Review interview
Context: Many writers write a great deal, but very few write more than a very little of the real thing. So most writing must be displaced activity. When cockerels confront each other and daren’t fight, they busily start pecking imaginary grains off to the side. That’s displaced activity. Much of what we do at any level is a bit like that, I fancy. But hard to know which is which. On the other hand, the machinery has to be kept running. The big problem for those who write verse is keeping the machine running without simply exercising evasion of the real confrontation. If Ulanova, the ballerina, missed one day of practice, she couldn’t get back to peak fitness without a week of hard work. Dickens said the same about his writing—if he missed a day he needed a week of hard slog to get back into the flow.
