A Quote by Gore Vidal
Class is the most difficult subject for American writers to deal with as it is the most difficult for the English to avoid.
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What makes a subject difficult to understand ? if it is significant, important ? is not that some special instruction about abstruse things is necessary to understand it. Rather it is the contrast between the understanding of the subject and what most people want to see. Because of this the very things that are most obvious can become the most difficult to understand. What has to be overcome is not difficulty of the intellect but of the will.
I remember, in school during English lessons, I would ask the teacher what were the most difficult books to read, and when she'd say 'Ulysses' or something, I'd run off to the library to check out a copy, eager to attempt the most difficult mountain.
The school of life offers some difficult courses, but it is in the difficult class that one learns the most.
It has always been very difficult for writers to survive commercially in India because the market was so small. But that's not true at all any more. It's one of the world's fastest growing and most vibrant markets for books, especially in English.
To acquire wealth is difficult, to preserve it is more difficult, but to spend it wisely, most difficult of all.
To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world, the most difficult and the most intellectual.
You can take your fitness seriously, but not yourself. That's the most difficult part: not to relax. That's the most difficult challenge I'm facing every fight.
The next-most difficult thing in the world is to get perspective. The most difficult is to keep it.
We tend to think of extremes of emotions as registering, for example, you have to cry or laugh or get angry. But for the most part, we find it difficult to read each other most of the time. If you walk through the street, most people are pretty difficult to read. But they're thinking inside.
That's the most difficult issue for me... to find a subject that holds my interest long enough that I'm prepared to go to work and spend the time and energy to shoot the subject.
That's the most difficult issue for me - to find a subject that holds my interest long enough that I'm prepared to go to work and spend the time and energy to shoot the subject.
I think, 'How could anybody mock a good pop song?' It is timeless; it transcends barriers; it breaks down every single type of social barrier that you can possibly have. It can deal with the most difficult subjects, even if it abstracts the subject matter.
Comedy is the most difficult thing to do. Easily the most difficult.
The fact that I didn't speak English I think was the most difficult thing for me.
Changing the subject is one of the most difficult arts to master, the key to almost all the others.
Class is the most taboo subject in America. The American media would rather talk about race or perversion or anything else considered taboo before class.
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