Brilliant Prose

How to Live a Long Life in Two Days/ Ernest Hemingway

      There is nothing else but now. There is neither yesterday, certainly, nor is there tomorrow. How old must you be before you know that? There is only now, and if now is only two days, then two days is your life and everything in it will be in proportion. This  is how […]

The Ugly and the Stupid/  Oscar Wilde

The Ugly and the Stupid/ Oscar Wilde

There is a fatality about all physical and intellectual distinction, the sort of fatality that seems to dog through history the faltering steps of kings.  It is better not to be different from one’s fellows. The ugly and the stupid have the best of it in this world. They can sit at their ease and […]