Anthony Browne Quotes

I played rugby from the age of 10 until my late twenties; an unlikely player - small, quiet, long-haired and 'wiry.'

Anthony Browne

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It is better not to express what one means than to express what one does not mean.

Karl Kraus
- Mean
- Better
- Express
It is one of the primary motives of modern art that it wants to abolish the distance which the viewer, the consumer, the audience maintain vis-a-vis a work of art.

Hans-Georg Gadamer
- Work
- Art
- Distance
Things were easier for the old novelists who saw people all of a piece. Speaking generally, their heroes were good through and through, their villains wholly bad.

W. Somerset Maugham
- People
- Good
- Bad
He who improves an opportunity sows a seed which will yield fruit in opportunity for himself and others.

Orison Swett Marden
- Opportunity
- Fruit
- Seed
Whether people be of high or low birth, rich or poor, old or young, enlightened or confused, they are all alike in that they will one day die.

Yamamoto Tsunetomo
- People
- High
- Die
The Holocaust survivor who knows Auschwitz through the experience of suffering observes it all from the perspective assigned to him. He keeps silent or gives interviews to the Spielberg Foundation, he accepts the compensation payments promised him after a fifty-year delay, or, if he is prominent, he makes a speech in the Swedish Academy.

Imre Kertesz