Stephen Vizinczey Quotes

A collection of quotes by Stephen Vizinczey.

Stephen Vizinczey is a prominent Hungarian-Canadian author, born on May 12, 1933. Best known for his critically acclaimed novel "In Praise of Older Women" published in 1965, Vizinczey became an influential figure in the literary world. His works often explore themes of love, sexuality, and the human condition. Vizinczey's writing style has been praised for its honesty, wit, and thought-provoking narratives. He continues to be celebrated for his contributions to literature, though specific details about his personal life are limited.

The truth is that our race survived ignorance; it is our sci

The truth is that our race survived ignorance; it is our scientific genius that will do us in.

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Consistency is a virtue for trains: what we want from a phil

Consistency is a virtue for trains: what we want from a philosopher is insights, whether he comes by them consistently or not.

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Consistency

Most bad books get that way because their authors are engage

Most bad books get that way because their authors are engaged in trying to justify themselves. If a vain author is an alcoholic, then the most sympathetically portrayed character in his book will be an alcoholic. This sort of thing is very boring for outsiders.

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Authors & Writing

Like all wage slaves, he had two crosses to bear: the people

Like all wage slaves, he had two crosses to bear: the people he worked for and the people he worked with

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Money

Is it possible that I am not alone in believing that in the

Is it possible that I am not alone in believing that in the dispute between Galileo and the Church, the Church was right and the center of man's universe is the earth?

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World

As both capitalist and communist states -- not to mention th

As both capitalist and communist states -- not to mention the technological world --have evolved under the illusion that men purposefully built them, ideological optimism seeps into every niche of our lives. It is made worse by mass culture which feeds our

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Optimism

Powerful men in particular suffer from the delusion that hum

Powerful men in particular suffer from the delusion that human beings have no memories. I would go so far as to say that the distinguishing trait of powerful men is the psychotic certainty that people forget acts of infamy as easily as their parents birth

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Power

The only virtue a character needs to possess between hardcov

The only virtue a character needs to possess between hardcovers, even if he bears a real person's name, is vitality: if he comes to life in our imaginations, he passes the test.

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Virtue

When you close your eyes to tragedy, you close your eyes to

When you close your eyes to tragedy, you close your eyes to greatness.

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Tragedy

Strange as it may seem, no amount of learning can cure stupi

Strange as it may seem, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and formal education positively fortifies it.

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Ignorance & Stupidity

Perhaps in a book review it is not out of place to note that

Perhaps in a book review it is not out of place to note that the safety of the state depends on cultivating the imagination.

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Imagination

We now have a whole culture based on the assumption that peo

We now have a whole culture based on the assumption that people know nothing and so anything can be said to them.

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Society