Leon Edel Quotes

The secret of biography resides in finding the link between talent and achievement. A biography seems irrelevant if it doesnt discover the overlap between what the individual did and the life that made this possible. Without discovering that, you have shapeless happenings and gossip.

Leon Edel

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There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.

Samuel Johnson
- Pain
- Gratitude
- Revenge
No, and I never, ever eat in between the meals. I control it well enough and with no pills, and I sleep seven hours a night. I go to bed. I fall asleep, and I wake up seven hours later, and this is the most important.

Karl Lagerfeld
- Up
- Important
- Night
It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.

Vidal Sassoon
- Mother
- Feeling
- Myself
There is no bore like a clever bore.

Samuel Butler
- Like
- Clever
- Bore
There can be no defence like elaborate courtesy.

E. V. Lucas
- Like
- Courtesy
- Defence
When human beings live together, conflict is inevitable. War is not.

Daisaku Ikeda
- Live
- War
- Together