#not

Nothing could be more inappropriate to American literature than its English source since the Americans are not British in sensibility. ↗

— Wallace Stevens

#american literature #british #could #english #inappropriate

One cannot spend one's time in being modern when there are so many more important things to be. ↗

— Wallace Stevens

#cannot #important #important things #many #modern

Do you know the difference between a beautiful woman and a charming one? A beauty is a woman you notice, a charmer is one who notices you. ↗

— Adlai E. Stevenson

#beautiful woman #beauty #between #charming #difference

That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another. ↗

— Adlai E. Stevenson

#another #becomes #generation #height #often

Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it. ↗

— Adlai E. Stevenson

#animal #back #cannot #generally #handwriting

There is a spiritual hunger in the world today - and it cannot be satisfied by better cars on longer credit terms. ↗

— Adlai E. Stevenson

#cannot #cars #credit #hunger #longer

We must recover the element of quality in our traditional pursuit of equality. We must not, in opening our schools to everyone, confuse the idea that all should have equal chance with the notion that all have equal endowments. ↗

— Adlai E. Stevenson

#confuse #element #endowments #equal #equality

Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than the freedom to stagnate. ↗

— Adlai E. Stevenson

#freedom #ideal #means #more #nothing

Nothing so dates a man as to decry the younger generation. ↗

— Adlai E. Stevenson

#decry #generation #man #nothing #younger

Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than freedom to stagnate, to live without dreams, to have no greater aim than a second car and another television set. ↗

— Adlai Stevenson

#another #car #dreams #even #freedom