Clive Bell Quotes

We have no other means of recognising a work of art than our feeling for it.

Clive Bell

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It's extraordinary what children put up with. I happened to see two of my uncles put my father up against the wall of my grandmother's house and knock his teeth out, because he'd been unpleasant to my mother. The next day I went upstairs and found my father making a rather half-hearted attempt to gas himself.

Jack Straw
- Up
- Children
- Mother
Society becomes how we behave.

Gavin Newsom
- Society
- How
- Behave
What I love about the sci-fi community is that it's the most nonjudgmental, inclusive, diverse environment in the country. There's no group of people that is more diverse and inclusive.

J. August Richards
- People
- Country
- Love
Difficult years lie ahead, patience is required.

Yannis Stournaras
- Difficult
- Patience
- Lie
When people treat you mean, you dislike them for that, but not because of their person, who they are. I was born and raised in a segregated society, but when I left there, I had nobody I disliked other than the people that'd mistreated me, and that only lasted for as long as they were mistreating me.

B. B. King
- People
- Long
- Society
Culture is a little like dropping an Alka-Seltzer into a glass - you don't see it, but somehow it does something.

Hans Magnus Enzensberger
- Culture
- You
- See