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Alan Rickman 5
English film, television and stage actor 1946–2016Related quotes
“A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.”
Source: Essays of Three Decades (1942)
“Ideas are more difficult to kill than people, but they can be killed, in the end.”
Source: American Gods (2001), Ch. 3
Context: Gods die. And when they truly die they are unmourned and unremembered. Ideas are more difficult to kill than people, but they can be killed, in the end.
Turner v. Collins (1871), L. R. 7 Ch. Ap. Ca. 340.
Source: The Battle of the Labyrinth
“Yielding more wholesome food than all the messes
That now taste-curious wanton plenty dresses.”
Second Week, First Day, Part i. Compare: "Herbs, and other country messes, Which the neat-handed Phillis dresses", John Milton, L'Allegro, line 85.
La Seconde Semaine (1584)
"The Bugbear of Relativism," p. 89
The Culture We Deserve (1989)
Context: Can an idea — a notion as abstract as Relativism — produce by itself the effects alleged? cause all the harm, destroy all the lives and reputations? I am as far as anyone can be from denying the power of ideas in history, but the suggestion that a philosophy (as Relativism is often called) has perverted millions and debased daily life is on the face of it absurd. No idea working alone has ever demoralized society, and there have been plenty of ideas simpler and more exciting than Relativism.
“Plenty has made me poor.”
Inopem me copia fecit.
Book III, 466
Variant translation: Abundance makes me poor.
Metamorphoses (Transformations)