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“What youth considers liberation, maturity considers tasteless excess.”
Theodore Dalrymple (1949) English doctor and writer
Discovering LaRochefoucauld http://www.newcriterion.com/archive/19/apr01/laroche.htm (April 2001). <br class="br">New Criterion (2000 - 2005)
“There are no evil thoughts except one; the refusal to think.”
Ayn Rand (1905–1982) Russian-American novelist and philosopher
Variant: There are no evil thoughts, Mr. Rearden," Francisco said softly, "except one: the refusal to think.
Source: Atlas Shrugged: Wer Ist John Galt?
John Updike (1932–2009) American novelist, poet, short story writer, art critic, and literary critic
On J. D. Salinger, from a review of his Franny and Zooey, in Studies in J. D. Salinger : Reviews, Essays, and Critiques of The Catcher in the Rye and other Fiction (1963) edited by Marvin Laser and Norman Fruman, p. 231; also quoted in The Christian Science Monitor (August 26, 1965) and Updike's Assorted Prose (1965).
Anton Chekhov (1860–1904) Russian dramatist, author and physician
Letter to A.S. Suvorin (March 29, 1890)
Letters
Aaron Hill (writer) (1685–1750) British writer
Don Alvarez in Act IV, Scene 1.
Alzira: A Tragedy (1736)
Context: Youth is ever apt to judge in haste,
And lose the medium in the wild extreme,
Do not repent, but regulate your passion:
Though love is reason, its excess is rage.
Give me, at least, your promise to reflect,
In cool, impartial solitude, and still.
No last decision till we meet again.
Fernando Pessoa (1888–1935) Portuguese poet, writer, literary critic, translator, publisher and philosopher
Source: Book, « Ode Marítima »
George Whyte-Melville (1821–1878) Scottish writer
The Autobiography of Captain Digby Grand, p. 672 of Fraser's Magazine, vol. 46, December 1852 https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.a0013488754;view=1up;seq=680
