It is not poverty so much as pretense that harasses a ruined man - the struggle between a proud mind and an empty purse - the keeping up of a hollow show that must soon come to an end.


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I have always stood in awe of the camera. I recognize it for the instrument it is, part Stradivarius...
IRVING PENN
Using simple equipment and daylight alone is for me a pleasure and a replenishment.
IRVING PENN
Many photographers feel their client is the subject. My client is a woman in Kansas who reads Vogue....
IRVING PENN
The severe portrait that is not the greatest joy in the world to the subject may be enormously inter...
IRVING PENN
I can get obsessed by anything if I look at it long enough. That's the curse of being a photogra...
IRVING PENN
My neighbor doesn't want to be loved as much as he wants to be envied.
IRVING LAYTON
I am a genius who has written poems that will survive with the best of Shakespeare, Wordsworth and K...
IRVING LAYTON
We love in another's soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, t...
IRVING LAYTON
People need religion. It's a vehicle for a moral tradition. A crucial role. Nothing can take its...
IRVING KRISTOL
Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
IRVING KRISTOL
Perhaps anti-depressants should be best reserved for the very extreme cases and, more importantly, f...
IRVING KIRSCH
If doctors just spent more time with their patients so they felt more reassured, that might help.
IRVING KIRSCH
There seems little reason to prescribe anti-depressant medication to any but the most severely depre...
IRVING KIRSCH
If you're taking an antidepressant, it's working, and you're not experiencing side effec...
IRVING KIRSCH
Patients who trust their doctors and have a psychological expectation of getting better could trigge...
IRVING KIRSCH
Depression comes back over time in about 90 percent of people on antidepressants. Studies show that ...
IRVING KIRSCH
Nocebos often cause a physical effect, but it's not a physically produced effect. What's the...
IRVING KIRSCH
Anything that instills a sense of hope will at least temporarily help treat depression.
IRVING KIRSCH
There seem to be many causes of depression. One cause is profound loss, grief. Economic hardship we ...
IRVING KIRSCH
Psychotherapy works, and some types of therapy have been shown to be much more effective than antide...
IRVING KIRSCH
The doctor-patient relationship is critical to the placebo effect.
IRVING KIRSCH
To someone who is not currently on anti-depressants, I would suggest trying other treatments first -...
IRVING KIRSCH
Imagination is not something apart and hermetic, not a way of leaving reality behind; it is a way of...
IRVING HOWE
The knowledge that makes us cherish innocence makes innocence unattainable.
IRVING HOWE
I never sold any of my pieces. I had all the money I wanted. Then I would have lost my sculptures an...
IRVING HARPER
I don't have a complex mind.
IRVING HARPER
At 93, I'm not looking forward to fame and fortune.
IRVING HARPER
With a computer, there are too many choices, and I always liked working within limits. You know, if ...
IRVING HARPER
The rate of interest acts as a link between income-value and capital-value.
IRVING FISHER
There's no people like show people.
IRVING BERLIN
After you get what you want you don't want it.
IRVING BERLIN
I got lost but look what I found.
IRVING BERLIN
Everybody ought to have a lower East Side in their life.
IRVING BERLIN
There's no business like show business.
IRVING BERLIN
The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success.
IRVING BERLIN
Life is 10 percent what you make it, and 90 percent how you take it.
IRVING BERLIN
The true humanist maintains a just balance between sympathy and selection.
IRVING BABBITT
Robespierre, however, was not the type of leader finally destined to emerge from the Revolution.
IRVING BABBITT
The papacy again, representing the traditional unity of European civilization, has also shown itself...
IRVING BABBITT
To harmonize the One with the Many, this is indeed a difficult adjustment, perhaps the most difficul...
IRVING BABBITT
The humanitarian lays stress almost solely upon breadth of knowledge and sympathy.
IRVING BABBITT