#without

The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual - when it begins to ignore the passions, the emotions - it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance. ↗

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

#becomes #begins #between #death #emotion

Is it sufficient that you have learned to drive the car, or shall we look and see what is under the hood? Most people go through life without ever knowing. ↗

— June Singer

#drive #ever #go #hood #knowing

There is something that falls short of perfection in every book, without exception, something influenced by the age, even something ridiculous; just like everyone, without exception, has weaknesses. ↗

— Josef Skvorecky

#book #even #every #everyone #exception

With acting I am being led by the script, other actors, the director, etc. But with songwriting I feel it is much more self reliant and allows me to be in the creative experience without being as dependent on others. ↗

— Helen Slater

#allows #am #being #creative #dependent

It has been demonstrated that no system, not even the most inhuman, can continue to exist without an ideology. ↗

— Joe Slovo

#continue #demonstrated #even #exist #ideology

The novelist must look on humanity without partiality or prejudice. His sympathy, like that of the historian, must be unbounded, and untainted by sect or party. ↗

— Goldwin Smith

#historian #humanity #like #look #must

Too many couples break up without understanding the consequences for their families. ↗

— Iain Duncan Smith

#break up #consequences #couples #families #many

I'm in this whole flow of doing certain art pieces without commerce. ↗

— Jada Pinkett Smith

#certain #commerce #doing #flow #i

Although I do wrong, I do not the wrongs that I am charged with doing; the wrong that I do is through the frailty of human nature, like other men. No man lives without fault. ↗

— Joseph Smith, Jr.

#am #charged #doing #fault #frailty

You couldn't have human society without language. ↗

— John M. Smith

#human society #language #society #without #you