Source: Letter to Isaac Disraeli (2 September 1826), quoted in William Flavelle Monypenny and George Earle Buckle, The Life of Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield. Volume I. 1804–1859 (1929), p. 104
Variant: Memory takes a lot of poetic licence. It omits some details; others are exaggerated, according to the emotional value of the articles it touches, for memory is seated predominantly in the heart. The interior is therefore rather dim and poetic.
Source: The Glass Menagerie
“If one speaks about torture, one must take care not to exaggerate.”
At the Mind's Limits: Contemplations by a Survivor on Auschwitz and Its Realities (1966)
George Saintsbury The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Edinburgh: Blackwood, 1923) p. 258.
Praise
“Fifty Years of American Poetry”, pp. 322–323
The Third Book of Criticism (1969)
“I speak from ignorance.
Who once learned much, but speaks from ignorance now.”
Poem Last of the Chiefs published in: Nathaniel Tarn (1965) Old savage, young city. p. 18.
Source: The Handmaid's Tale
“I think romance basically starts with respect. And new romance always starts with respect.”
Interview with Rebecca Murray http://romanticmovies.about.com/cs/lostintranslation/a/lostbillint.htm
Context: I think romance basically starts with respect. And new romance always starts with respect. I think I have some romantic friendships. Like the song “Love the One You’re With”; there is something to that. It’s not just make love to whomever you’re with, it’s just love whomever you’re with. And love can be seeing that here we are and there’s this world here. If I go to my room and I watch TV, I didn’t really live. If I stay in my hotel room and watch TV, I didn’t live today.
The Devil's Dictionary (1911)
Source: The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
