How do wars start? Diplomats tell lies to journalists, then believe what they read.
I and my public understand each other very well: it does not hear what I say, and I don't say what it wants to hear.
Feminine passion is to masculine as an epic is to an epigram.
A snob is unreliable. The work he praises might just be good.
It so often happened to me that someone who shared my opinion kept the larger share for himself that I am now forewarned and offer people only ideas.
One must read all writers twice--the good as well as the bad. The one kind will be recognized; the other, unmasked.