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The Rector of Justin QUOTES

The Rector of Justin QUOTES

1 " I was sophisticated enough to know that the written word is no mirror of the writer’s character, that the amateur, though a selfless angel, may show himself a pompous ass, while the professional, a monster of ego, can convince you in a phrase that he has the innocence of a child. I "

― Louis Auchincloss , The Rector of Justin

2 " Communication is everything to you artists. You can’t look at a landscape or a bowl of fruit without thinking how you will put it on a canvas so that somebody else will see it as your landscape or your bowl of fruit. That is the inescapable vulgarity of art. "

― Louis Auchincloss , The Rector of Justin

3 " In that moment I think I learned the real tragedy of living too long. It is not losing one's health or one's memory or even one's mind; it is losing one's dignity. "

― Louis Auchincloss , The Rector of Justin

4 " Snobbishness is a cancer in America because we pretend it’s not there and let it grow until it’s inoperable. In England it’s less dangerous because it’s out in the open. "

― Louis Auchincloss , The Rector of Justin

5 " Let me not be proud at petty victories, and let me remember that if I should ever become respected by the boys, it will be my task to be merciful and gentle and kind. I am here, after all, to serve them. "

― Louis Auchincloss , The Rector of Justin

6 " The older I get the more I realize that the only thing a teacher has to go on is that rare spark in a boy’s eye. And when you see that, Brian, you’re an ass if you worry where it comes from. Whether it’s an ode of Horace or an Icelandic saga or something that goes bang in a laboratory. "

― Louis Auchincloss , The Rector of Justin

7 " You’ve got to let the boys be animals once in a while,” he answered my protest as we walked away. “Social life was more attractive when gentlemen defended their honor with swords and not with lawsuits. "

― Louis Auchincloss , The Rector of Justin

8 " What I really resent is that my graduates are not more different from his. For all my emphasis on the humanities and his on God, we both turn out stockbrokers! "

― Louis Auchincloss , The Rector of Justin

9 " a lifetime’s education was not the equivalent of a minute of Armageddon. "

― Louis Auchincloss , The Rector of Justin