Elizabeth Drew

The torment of human frustration whatever its immediate cause is the knowledge that the self is in prison its vital force and mangled mind leaking away in lonely wasteful self conflict.

Travel, instead of broadening the mind, often merely lengthens the conversation.

Too often travel, instead of broadening the mind, merely lengthens the conversation.

Democracy, like any non-coercive relationship, rests on a shared understanding of limits.

The world is not run by thought, nor by imagination, but by opinion.

Propaganda has a bad name, but its root meaning is simply to disseminate through a medium, and all writing therefore is propaganda for something. It's a seeding of the self in the consciousness of others.

Too often travel, instead of broadening the mind, merely lengthens the conversations.

The test of literature is, I suppose, whether we ourselves live more intensely for the reading of it.