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Katharine Fullerton Gerould Quotes & Sayings

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Last updated Sep 2023

Katharine Fullerton Gerould Topics

Legislation
Conventionality

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No convention gets to be a convention at all except by grace of a lot of clever and powerful people first inventing it, and then I mposing it on others. You can be pretty sure, if you are strictly conventional, that you are following genius--a long way off. And unless you are a genius yourself, that is a good thing to do.

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If a person is to be unconventional, he must be amusing or he is intolerable: for, in the nature of the case, he guarantees yo u nothing but amusement. He does not guarantee you any of the little amenities by which society has assured itself that, if it must go to sleep, it will at least sleep in a comfortable chair.

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There is no morality by instinct. There is no social salvation in the end without taking thought; without mastery of logic and application of logic to human experience.

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The real drawback to the simple life is that it is not simple. If you are living it, you positively can do nothing else. There is not time.

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Social distinctions concern themselves ultimately with whom you may and may not marry.

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Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life.

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Originality usually amounts only to plagiarizing something unfamiliar.

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One of the reasons, surely, why women have been credited with less perfect veracity than men is that the burden of conventional falsehood falls chiefly on them.

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Ignorance of what real learning is, and a consequent suspicion of it; materialism, and a consequent intellectual laxity, both of these have done destructive work in the colleges.

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Educational legislation nowadays is largely in the hands of illiterate people, and the illiterate will take good care that their illiteracy is not made a reproach on them.

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Conventional manners are a kind of literacy test for the alien who comes among us.

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Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones.

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All violations of essential privacy are brutalizing.

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