Quotes by Mann, Thomas

I have always been an admirer. I regard the gift of admiration as indi >>

If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you >>

You ask what is the use of classification, arrangement, systemization? >>

Quotations about Speech

Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of writt >>

Why doesn't the fellow who says, I'm no speechmaker let it go at that >>

From my earliest days I have enjoyed an attractive impediment in my sp >>

Speech is civilization itself. The word... preserves contact -- it is silence which isolates.

Mann, Thomas