Quotes by Louis Auchincloss

Louis Auchincloss

A common objection to inherited wealth is that it stifles the urge to work. I have not generally observed this to be true.

Being True

Common

Wealth

A lot of writers … sit in a log cabin by the lake and put their feet up by the fire in the silence and write. If you can have that that’s all very well, but the true writer will learn to write anywhere — even in prison.

Feet

Fire

Writing

A man can spend his whole existence never learning the simple lesson that he has only one life and that if he fails to do what he wants with it, nobody else really cares.

Lessons

Men

Simple

A neurotic can perfectly well be a literary genius, but his greatest danger is always that he will not recognize when he is dull.

Danger

Dull

Genius

As the classes in modern life come together, we have become much more intensely class conscious. It’s a very curious thing. But I deal with human beings with whom I’ve come in contact and have had a chance to closely observe. Their upper-classness is not a matter of particular fascination for me.

Class

Fascination

Together

Buechner is a worthy member of the great prose stylists: Pascal, Newman, and Merton, who have harnessed their art to a passionate religious faith.

Art

Passionate

Religious

Consider, children … the pain of touching the tip of your finger to your mother’s stove, even for a fraction of a second. That is an experience which most of you have suffered. Now try to imagine that pain, not simply on a fingertip but spread over the whole surface of your body, and not for a mere second, but everlastingly. That, children, is hellfire.

Children

Mother

Pain

Decent artists go through bad times but eventually they do get recognized. It’s by no means a battle lost. Yet.

Artist

Battle

Mean

Frederick Buechner can find grace and redemption even in the shoddiest, phoniest aspects of a cultural wasteland. One reads Lion Country…with hope and delight.

Country

Delight

Grace

Great lecturers seldom hesitate to use dramatic tricks to enshrine their precepts in the minds of their audiences, and at Yale perhaps Chauncey B. Tinker was the most noted. To read one of his lectures was like reading a monologue of the great actress Ruth Draper–you missed the main point. You missed the drop in his voice as he approached the death in Rome of the tubercular Keats; you missed the shaking tone in which he described the poet’s agony for the absent Fanny with him his love had never been consummated; you missed the grim silence of the end.

Reading

Rome

Yale

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Crowds

Danger

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Dose

Dull

Dying

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Energy

Enough

Excellence

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Fate

Feet

Fiction

Fire

Forever

Forgiven

Forgotten

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Great Love

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Heart

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Quotes by Louis Auchincloss

Louis Auchincloss

A common objection to inherited wealth is that it stifles the urge to work. I have not generally observed this to be true.

A lot of writers … sit in a log cabin by the lake and put their feet up by the fire in the silence and write. If you can have that that’s all very well, but the true writer will learn to write anywhere — even in prison.

A man can spend his whole existence never learning the simple lesson that he has only one life and that if he fails to do what he wants with it, nobody else really cares.

A neurotic can perfectly well be a literary genius, but his greatest danger is always that he will not recognize when he is dull.

Buechner is a worthy member of the great prose stylists: Pascal, Newman, and Merton, who have harnessed their art to a passionate religious faith.

Decent artists go through bad times but eventually they do get recognized. It’s by no means a battle lost. Yet.

Frederick Buechner can find grace and redemption even in the shoddiest, phoniest aspects of a cultural wasteland. One reads Lion Country…with hope and delight.

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