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Max Lerner Quotes

Max Lerner quotes

American Journalist December 20, 1902

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To create what it does, Hollywood has to draw young people, often of unstable temperment, from all over the world. It plunges them into exacting work---surrounds them with a sensuous life-- and cuts them off from the normal sources of living". Max Lerner
Max Lerner quote: "Somehow life doesn't always pay off to those who are most..."
Somehow life doesn't always pay off to those who are most insistent. Max Lerner
Max Lerner quote: "The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but..."
The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little. Max Lerner
The best thing about lying in bed late is that you learn to distinguish between first things and trivia, for whatever presses on you has to prove its importance before it makes you move. Max Lerner
Despite the success cult, men are most deeply moved not by the reaching of the goal but by the grandness of the effort involved in getting there - or failing to get there. Max Lerner
Max Lerner quote: "A President is best judged by the enemies he makes when he has..."
A President is best judged by the enemies he makes when he has really hit his stride. Max Lerner
Max Lerner quote: "Either men will learn to live like brothers, or they will die..."
Either men will learn to live like brothers, or they will die like beasts. Max Lerner
Max Lerner quote: "The turning point in the process of growing up is when you..."
The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core of strength within you that survives all hurt. Max Lerner
The tourist who moves about to see and hear and open himself to all the influences of the places which condense centuries of human greatness is only a man in search of excellence. Max Lerner
The problem of freedom in America is that of maintaining a competition of ideas, and you do not achieve that by silencing one brand of idea. Max Lerner
The crime of book purging is that it involves a rejection of the word. For the word is never absolute truth, but only man's frail and human effort to approach the truth. To reject the word is to reject the human search. Max Lerner
Max Lerner quote: "You may call for peace as loudly as you wish, but where there..."
You may call for peace as loudly as you wish, but where there is no brotherhood there can in the end be no peace. Max Lerner
Max Lerner quote: "The politics of surprise leads through the Gates of..."
The politics of surprise leads through the Gates of Astonishment into the Kingdom of Hope. Max Lerner
Max Lerner quote: "To deaden yourself against any hurt is to deaden yourself also..."
To deaden yourself against any hurt is to deaden yourself also against the hurt of others. Max Lerner
Max Lerner quote: "A politician wouldn't dream of being allowed to call a..."
A politician wouldn't dream of being allowed to call a columnist the things a columnist is allowed to call a politician. Max Lerner

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