21 Quotes by Elizabeth Drew

Too often travel, instead of broadening the mind, merely lengthens the conversation.

Travel, instead of broadening the mind, often merely lengthens the conversation.

Democracy, like any non-coercive relationship, rests on a shared understanding of limits.

The test of literature is, I suppose, whether we ourselves live more intensely for the reading of it.

People are more violently opposed to fur than leather because it's safer to harass rich women than motorcycle gangs. People are very inclined to set moral standards for others.

The world is not run by thought, nor by imagination, but by opinion.

Too often travel, instead of broadening the mind, merely lengthens the conversations.

The Republicans’ plan is that if they can’t buy the 2012 election they will steal it.

The torment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital force and "mangled mind" leaking away in lonely, wasteful self-conflict.