Secondbest Quotes
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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.
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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)
[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)
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.
Alberto Manguel— Forbidden Reading, p. 281
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))
