“A writer is someone who has taught his mind to misbehave.”
Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet
Romans 11:33 http://www.jw.org/en/publications/bible/nwt/books/romans/11/, NWT <br class="br">Epistle to the Romans <br class="br">Context: O the depth of God’s riches and wisdom and knowledge! How unsearchable his judgments [are] and past tracing out his ways [are]! For “who has come to know Jehovah’s mind, or who has become his counselor?”
“A writer is someone who has taught his mind to misbehave.”
Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet
“A man’s at odds to know his mind cause his mind is aught he has to know it with.”
Cormac McCarthy (1933) American novelist, playwright, and screenwriter
Blood Meridian (1985)
Source: Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West
“He who exerts his mind to the utmost knows his nature.”
Mencius (-372–-289 BC) Chinese philosopher
7A:1, as translated by Wing-tsit Chan in A Source Book in Chinese Philosophy (1963), p. 62
The Mencius
Masti Venkatesha Iyengar (1891–1986) Indian writer
To the author Ramachandra Sharma of this book who had said that he was incapable of total surrender to God as Masti had great faith in God page [Masti Venkatesha Iyengar, Masti, http://books.google.com/books?id=e6VqgWouUmUC, 2004, Katha, 978-81-87649-50-2, 26]
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Colette (1873–1954) 1873-1954 French novelist: wrote Gigi
Speech on being elected to the Belgian Academy, as quoted in “Lady of Letters” Pt. 4, Earthly Paradise (1966) ed. Robert Phelps
Cesar Chavez (1927–1993) American farm worker, labor leader, and civil rights activist
What the Future Holds (1984)
Cesare Pavese (1908–1950) Italian poet, novelist, literary critic, and translator
Source: The devil in the hills (1949), Chapter 9, p. 319
Thomas Szasz (1920–2012) Hungarian psychiatrist
Revised edition, 1985. p. 175.
Ceremonial Chemistry (1974)