The Past Is A Work

The Critic Who Justly Admires All Kinds Of Things Simultaneously Cannot Love Any One Of Them.

Few, As I Have Said, Are The Humorists Who Can Induce This State. To Master And Dissolve Us, To Give Us The Joy Of Being Worn Down And Tired Out With Laughter, Is A Success To Be Won By No Man Save In Virtue Of A Rare Staying-power. Laughter Becomes Extreme Only If It Be Consecutive. There Must Be No Pauses For Recovery. Touch-and-go Humour, However Happy, Is Not Enough. The Jester Must Be Able To Grapple His Theme And Hang On To It, Twisting It This Way And That, And Making It Yield Magically All Manner Of Strange And Precious Things.

For People Who Like That Kind Of Thing, This Is The Kind Of Thing They Like.

Men Of Genius Are Not Quick Judges Of Character.

Pessimism Does Win Us Great Happy Moments.