The Value of an Idea / Oscar Wilde
If one puts forward an idea to a true Englishman–always a rash thing to do–he never dreams of considering whether the idea is right or wrong. The only thing he considers of any importance is whether one believes it oneself. Now, the value of an idea has nothing whatsoever to do with the sincerity […]
What He Believed in / Ernest Hemingway
He had destroyed his talent by not using it, by betrayals of him and what he believed in, by drinking so much that he blunted the edge of this perception, by laziness, by sloth, and by snobbery, by pride and by prejudice, by hook and by crook. … It was a talent all right […]
