SHORTWAVES

New Zealand Listener, Volume 2, Issue 30, 19 January 1940, Page 7

SHORTWAVES

— Se SS T is among the Purveyors, among writers who have regarded themselves, not as prophets revealing truth, nor as beings dedicated to producing something perfect, but as men supplying a need of the moment, that some of the greatest names of all are found: Shakespeare, Moliére, Balzac, Dickens. -Desmond MacCarthy. * * 7 E (the reviewer) is not thinking of the novel as a novel, nor even about the general reader, though he pretends to do so himself; he is thinking about the writer and about all he knows to have been in the writer’s mind, the faith, and the effort.Storm Jameson. Bo * Ee I CAN project myself into any age, environment, condition, situation, character or emotion that interests me deeply. I need never have experienced it or seen it or, to my knowledge, heard or read about it-Edna Ferber. % * * NEARLY all literary art is amateurish-Arnold Bennett. * a * ‘THE world is at its last gasp.-Julian (4th Century A.D.). * * * OMETIMES it is not easy to be the child of a famous father-Lady Eleanor Smith. ‘THINGS above are better than things below; but all creation together is better than things above, -St. Augustine. bo * * MAN is a failure as a political animal. The creative forces which produce him must produce something better.-George Bernard Shaw. *% uk bd I HAVE three besetting sins . . . impetuosity, self- ~ consciousness, and a lack of interest in anything not immediately connected with myself or with the theatre-John Gielgud. % * * GLOWNESS is beauty.-Rodin. * a * REAT all men as your equals — especially the rich.-Maurice Baring. * * * BLESSED are the pure in heart, for they have so much more to talk about.-Edith Wharton.