Other People's Thoughts
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Other People's Thoughts

Idiosyncratically Compiled By Simon Leys for the Amusement of Idle Readers

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eBook - ePub

Other People's Thoughts

Idiosyncratically Compiled By Simon Leys for the Amusement of Idle Readers

About this book

?A book is a mirror; if an ape looks into it, an apostle is hardly likely to look out.' –G. C. Lichtenberg'The desire to go into politics is usually indicative of some sort of personality disorder, and it is precisely those who want power most that should be kept furthest from it.' –Arthur Koestler 'Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes.' –ThoreauIn this wonderfully entertaining collection of quotations, Simon Leys gathers insights and bons mots from a motley group of great artists, wits and thinkers. Topics range from ambition and adventure to youth, sex, time, toads, wine, faith and friendship.Wise, witty and delightfully unpredictable, Other People's Thoughts is for anyone who has ever rifled through a friend's bookshelves or snuck a peak over a reading stranger's shoulder. In this wide-ranging miscellany, we are given free rein to explore the nooks and crannies of one man's mental library. By turns profound, whimsical and subversive, the result is a book-lover's delight.

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Information

Publisher
Black Inc.
Year
2007
eBook ISBN
9781921866630
Print ISBN
9781863954150

INDEX OF AUTHORS

Amiel, Henri Frédéric 54
Amundsen, Roald 1
Arendt, Hannah 33
Auden, W. H. 8, 20, 21, 98, 101
Augustine, Saint 124
Bainville, Jacques 42
Balzac, Honoré de 16, 63
Baudelaire, Charles 32, 55, 72,
106
Belloc, Hilaire 30
Bellow, Saul 55, 70
Benjamin, Walter 135
Bergson, Henri 47
Bernanos, Georges 10, 11, 79,
86, 139
Bernard, Saint 82, 114
Bloy, LĂ©on 26, 38, 49, 51, 55,
68, 90, 92, 93, 100, 102, 119,
123
Borges, J. L. 81
Brandys, Kazimierz 82
Brecht, Bertolt 70
Brodsky, Joseph 28
Burke, Edmund 23
Butler, Samuel 18, 55
Byron, George Gordon, lord 3,
55, 137
CalderĂłn de la Barca (Pedro) 9
Canetti, Elias 55
Chamfort, Nicolas de 34, 41,
51, 73, 113, 120
Chardonne, Jacques 126
Chateaubriand, François
René, vicomte de 1, 29, 75,
76, 108
Chekhov, Anton 19, 52, 83, 86
Chen Hongshou 7
Chesterton, G. K. 10, 19, 39,
59, 66, 86, 93, 128, 134
Cicero 14, 47
Cioran, Emil Michel 7, 69, 76,
78, 124, 136
Claudel, Paul 43, 48, 104, 137
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor 85
Confucius 50, 110, 111
Conrad, Joseph 1, 45, 47, 59,
83, 105, 106, 107, 109, 112,
131
Couturier, Marie-Alain 83
DĂĄvila, NicolĂĄs GĂłmez 82
Degas, Edgar 117, 125, 128
Delacroix, EugĂšne 3, 40, 80
Delphic Oracle 36
Dinesen, Isak 129
Drake, Sir Francis 106
Dumézil, Georges 24
Eckhart, Master 42
Eliot, T. S. 46, 112
Ellis, Havelock 74
Emerson, ...

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Foreword
  5. Adventure
  6. Ambition
  7. Art
  8. Attention
  9. Balm
  10. Bamboo
  11. Basic Needs
  12. Beauty
  13. Best-Sellers
  14. Biography
  15. Books
  16. Cabinet Minister
  17. Certainty
  18. Chair
  19. Chance
  20. Church
  21. Civilisation
  22. Clothes
  23. Clumsiness
  24. Coglioni
  25. Comic Rabbits
  26. Communication
  27. Conservative Manifesto
  28. Contract
  29. Cost
  30. Couples
  31. Courage
  32. Criticism
  33. Death*
  34. Decent People
  35. Democracy
  36. Despair
  37. Devil
  38. Distance
  39. Distraction
  40. Doing Good
  41. Dream
  42. Economy
  43. Epitaph
  44. Failure
  45. Faith
  46. Fiction
  47. Fidelity
  48. First Principles
  49. Flea
  50. Friends
  51. Gentleman
  52. Goal
  53. God
  54. Grass
  55. Greatness
  56. Happiness
  57. Hell
  58. History
  59. Homosexuality
  60. House
  61. Humanism
  62. I
  63. Illusion
  64. Imitation, Borrowing
  65. Intellectuals
  66. Intelligence
  67. Interview
  68. Jews
  69. Justice
  70. Knowledge
  71. Laughter
  72. Leisure, Laziness
  73. Lie
  74. Life
  75. Life Drawing
  76. Limit
  77. Literature
  78. Litotes
  79. Love
  80. Madness
  81. Marriage
  82. Mask
  83. Mass
  84. Memory
  85. Mind and Heart
  86. Misanthropy
  87. Money
  88. Multiculturalism
  89. Music
  90. Mystery
  91. Myth
  92. Newspapers
  93. No
  94. No Abiding City
  95. Obscurity
  96. Old Age
  97. Opinion
  98. Original Sin
  99. Painting
  100. Parable of Kierkegaard
  101. Parable of Multatuli
  102. Parable of Supervielle
  103. Paris
  104. Pedagogy
  105. Philosophy
  106. Poet
  107. Polemicist
  108. Politics
  109. Poverty
  110. Power
  111. Prayer
  112. Prejudice
  113. Priest
  114. Proust
  115. Providence
  116. Rain
  117. Reading
  118. Reality
  119. Retirement
  120. Ritual
  121. Sacred
  122. Saint
  123. Santayana
  124. Savages
  125. Scholar
  126. Sea
  127. Seriousness
  128. Sex
  129. Shit
  130. Silence
  131. Simplicity
  132. Smallness
  133. Society
  134. Solitude
  135. Straightforwardness
  136. Sword
  137. Talent
  138. Taste
  139. Time
  140. Toad
  141. Tobacco
  142. Translation
  143. Travel
  144. Trials, Suffering
  145. Truth
  146. Universal Freedom
  147. Wealth
  148. Wife
  149. Wine
  150. Without Trace
  151. Woman
  152. Work
  153. World Harmony
  154. Writer
  155. Youth
  156. Zhuang Zi
  157. Index of Authors
  158. Index of Subjects
  159. Acknowledgement