“Life without absorbing occupation is hell — joy consists in forgetting life.”
Elbert Hubbard (1856–1915) American writer, publisher, artist, and philosopher fue el escritor del jarron azul
The Note Book of Elbert Hubbard (1927)
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Leon Trotsky book Literature and Revolution
Literature and Revolution (1924), edited by William Keach (2005), Ch. 4 : Futurism, p. 120
Variants:
Art is not a mirror to hold up to society, but a hammer with which to shape it.
Remarks apparently derived from Trotsky's observations, or those he implies preceded his own, this is attributed to Bertolt Brecht in Paulo Freire : A Critical Encounter (1993) by Peter McLaren and Peter Leonard, p. 80, and to Vladimir Mayakovsky in The Political Psyche (1993) by Andrew Samuels, p. 9
Art is not a mirror held up to society, but a hammer with which to shape it.
Context: Art, it is said, is not a mirror, but a hammer: it does not reflect, it shapes. But at present even the handling of a hammer is taught with the help of a mirror, a sensitive film that records all the movements. Photography and motion-picture photography, owing to their passive accuracy of depiction, are becoming important educational instruments in the field of labor. If one cannot get along without a mirror, even in shaving oneself, how can one reconstruct oneself or one's life, without seeing oneself in the "mirror" of literature? Of course no one speaks about an exact mirror. No one even thinks of asking the new literature to have mirror-like impassivity. The deeper literature is, and the more it is imbued with the desire to shape life, the more significantly and dynamically it will be able to "picture" life.
Philip Larkin (1922–1985) English poet, novelist, jazz critic and librarian
Letter to J.B.Sutton, 21 December 1942
Thomas Cahill book How the Irish Saved Civilization
Source: How the Irish Saved Civilization (1995), Ch. VI What Was Found
“Literature is that which he can not read without pain, without choking on truth.”
Roland Barthes (1915–1980) French philosopher, critic and literary theorist
Arthur Symons book The Symbolist Movement in Literature
Stéphane Mallarmé.
The Symbolist Movement in Literature (1899)
“Capitalism without bankruptcy is like Christianity without hell.”
Frank Borman (1928) NASA astronaut
The Growing Bankruptcy Brigade, TIME magazine (18 October 1982) http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,949605,00.html
“Capitalism without bankruptcy is like Christianity without Hell.”
Kyle Bass (1969) businessperson
BBC HARDTalk interview, 15 November 2011.
