Elaine Scarry Quotes
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Beauty brings copies of itself into being.
— Elaine Scarry
Beauty always takes place in the particular.
— Elaine Scarry
When a just cause reaches its flood-tide ... whatever stands in its way must fall before its overwhelming force.
— Carrie Chapman Catt
Success only feeds the appetite of aggression.
— Lyndon B. Johnson
To have great pain is to have certainty; to hear that another person has pain is to have doubt.
— Elaine Scarry
When we come upon beautiful things they act like small tears in the surface of the world that pull us through to some vaster space.
— Elaine Scarry
Never allow impatience to rob you of what you truly deserved.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Silence is the genius of fools and one of the virtues of the wise.
— Pope Boniface VIII
God knows I don't deserve her. But I wanted her. Every part of her. And I wasn't about to let her go.
— Alora Dillon
The philosopher Elaine Scarry has observed that "beauty always takes place in the particular." Cruelty, on the other hand, prefers abstraction.
— Jonathan Safran Foer
How one walks through the world, the endless small adjustments of balance, is affected by the shifting weights of beautiful things.
— Elaine Scarry