Secondbest Quotes
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As centuries of dictators have known, an illiterate crowd is easiest to rule; since the craft of reading cannot be untaught once it has been acquired, the second-best recourse is to limit its scope.
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More Secondbest Quotes
There is only one real sin, and that is to persuade oneself that the second-best is anything but the second-best.
— 1962 The Golden Notebook,'The Blue Notebook'.
The difference between the first- and second-best things in art absolutely seems to escape verbal definition it is a matter of a hair, a shade, an inward quiver of some kind yet what miles away in the point of preciousness!
william james— To Henry Rutgers Marshall (7 February 1899)
The desires of the heart are as crooked as corkscrews, Not to be born is the best for man; The second-best is a formal order, The dance's pattern; dance while you can.
wystan hugh auden— 1937 'Letter to William Coldstream, Esq', in Letter from Iceland (with Louis MacNeice).
[Director Christopher] Nolan has not only crafted the best Batman movie, but arguably the second-best motion picture superhero narrative (topped only by the linked duo of Superman and Superman II ). For those who thought Spider-Man and X-Men had a lot to offer, wait till you see where this film goes. ... Batman Begins is a strong re-start to a franchise that deserves better than it has often been accorded.
james berardinelli— Review of Batman Begins (2005)
There's only one real sin, and that is to persuade oneself that the second-best is anything but the second-best.
doris lessing— Anna Wulf (The Golden Notebook (1962))
