Quotes by : Richard Mitchell

Words never fail. We hear them, we read them; they enter into the mind and become part of us for as long....

His jargon conceals, from him, but not from us, the deep, empty hole in his mind. He uses technological....

Only in some very special cases is comprehension the point of reading--in things like recipes and "reading....

People who cannot put strings of sentences together in good order cannot think. An educational system....

Some minds, at some point, discover that they can not make sense of their own predications without attention....

Training is a good dog, a constant companion and an utterly loyal and devoted friend, and everyone should....

And that is to say, of course, that you can "read" a culture without its literature, without the bother....

His prose, like the thinking it reveals, is full of cloudy suggestions of something beyond the range....

Like prepositional phrases, certain structural arrangements in English are much more important than the....

That's how ideas and the institutions they generate come to be in the first place. It is in strings of....