Quotes About Judgment

The mouth worried you until you knew him and then it worried you more.

The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shock-proof, shit detector. This is the writer's radar and all great writers have had it.

So far, about morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after and judged by these standards, which I do not defend, the bullfight is very normal to me because I feel very fine while it is going on and have a feeling of life and death and mortality and immortality, and after it is over I feel very sad but also very fine.

How good a book is should be judged by the man who writes it by the excellence of the material that he eliminates.

That was morality; things that made you disgusted afterward. No, that must be immorality.

I always like the bad ones. I know he's a bad one of some sort.

There is no left and right in writing. There is only good and bad writing.

I do not think I have ever seen a nastier-looking man... Under the black hat, when I had first seen them, the eyes had been those of an unsuccessful rapist. [on Brit poet Percy Wyndham Lewis]

You look at the picture without prejudice,read book with open heart,like yours,but the life, you simply live

I have tried to write by the old rule that how good a book is should be judged by the man who writes it by the excellence of the material that he eliminates.

I don't like to write like God. It is only because you never do it, though, that the critics think you can't do it.

watched Lewis carefully without seeming to look at him, as you do when you are boxing, and I do not think I had ever seen a nastier-looking man. Some people show evil as a great race horse shows breeding. They have the dignity of a hard chancre. Lewis did not show evil; he just looked nasty.

The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shockproof, shit detector. This is the writer's radar and all great writers have had it.

If the others heard me talking out loud they would think that I am crazy,' he said aloud. 'But since I am not crazy, I do not care.

With her mouth closed she was a rather pretty girl.

To understand is to forgive. That's not true. Forgiveness has been exaggerated.

He liked the works of his friends, which is beautiful as loyalty but can be disastrous as judgment.

A részeg ember aljasabb, mint akármelyik gonosztevÅ'. A tolvaj, ha éppen nem lop, olyan ember, mint mindenki más. A zsaroló legalább otthon nem folytatja mesterségét. A gyilkos megmossa kezét, amikor hazatér. De milyen a részeg ember? Büdös, és berókáz a saját ágyába, és a szeszben eláznak a legfontosabb szervei.

That is the way a whore talks. A whore is also a woman, but I am not a whore. You'll be one. Not through you.

In the danger there is certainty in the knowledge of what kind of options to use

E nisto consiste a moral: coisas que fazemos e das quais depois sentimos repulsa.

Under the black hat, when I had first seen them, the eyes had been those of an unsuccessful rapist. - about Wyndham Lewis

I gave Brett what for, you know. I said if she would go about with Jews and bull-fighters and such people, she must expect trouble.

It's not cowardly to know what is foolish. -Neither is foolish to know what is cowardly.