To be remembered after we are dead, is but poor recompense for being treated with contempt while we are living.
(William Hazlitt (1778-1830), British essayist. repr. In The Complete Works Of William Hazlitt, vol. 9, ed. P.P. Howe (1932). Characteristics: In the Manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims, no. 429 (1823).)
I remember her on the screen, huge as a colossus doll, mincing and whispering and simply hoping her way into total vulnerability.
(Gloria Steinem (b. 1934), U.S. feminist, writer, editor. repr. In Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions (1983). "Marilyn Monroe: The Woman who Died Too Soon," Ms. (New York, Aug. 1972).)
To be remembered after we are dead, is but poor recompense for being treated with contempt while we are living.
(William Hazlitt (1778-1830), British essayist. Characteristics: In the Manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims, no. 429 (1823), repr. In The Complete Works of William Hazlitt, vol. 9, ed. P.P. Howe (1932).)
Men fall into two classesthose who forget views and those who remember them.
(E.M. (Edward Morgan) Forster (1879-1970), British novelist, essayist. A Room with a View, pt. I, ch. 15 (1908).
George Emerson's opinion repeated by Lucy Honeychurch.)