Philip Roth book The Facts: A Novelist's Autobiography
Opening letter to Nathan Zuckerman
The Facts: A Novelist's Autobiography (1988)
The Mystic Path to Cosmic Power
Philip Roth book The Facts: A Novelist's Autobiography
Opening letter to Nathan Zuckerman
The Facts: A Novelist's Autobiography (1988)
“To set the cause above renown,
To love the game above the prize.”
Henry Newbolt (1862–1938) English poet and writer
The Island Race (1898).
“To rank the effort above the prize may be called love.”
Confucius (-551–-479 BC) Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher
§ 6.20
Source: The Analects, Chapter VI
John Taylor Gatto (1935–2018) American teacher, book author
Source: A Different Kind of Teacher: Solving the Crisis of American Schooling, Berkeley Hills Books (2000) p. 178
Gabriel García Márquez book Memories of My Melancholy Whores
Source: Memories of My Melancholy Whores
Lee Smolin (1955) American cosmologist
as quoted by Ray Kurzweil, The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence (2000)
“The Rifles were a new kind of regiment, prizing skill and intelligence above blind discipline.”
Bernard Cornwell (1944) British writer
Sharpe (Novel Series), Sharpe's Prey (2001)