Frank Harris

“The Christian churches were offered two things: the spirit of Jesus and the idiotic morality of Paul, and they rejected the higher inspiration... Following Paul, we have turned the goodness of love into a fiend and degraded the crowning impulse of our being into a capital sin.”

“I will, however, establish that success in love, as in all other aspects of life, belongs, as a rule, to the persistent and fiber man. Chaucer had reason to make the Old Bath confess: 'The truth is, more or less, we always succumb to attention and perseverance'.”

“I am, really, a great writer; my only difficulty is in finding great readers.”

“Strong people are made by opposition like kites that go up against the wind.”

“All the faults of the age come from Christianity and journalism. Christianity, of course, but why journalism?”

“Such actions are beyond praise: it is the perfume of such sweet and noble human sympathy that makes this wild beasts' cage a world habitable for men.”

“The truth is that the fever of desire in youth is fleeting disease that intimacy promptly cure.”

“There is a destiny that shapes our ends rough, hew them as we will.”

“Memory is the mother of the muses, prototype Artist. As a rule picks and highlights what is important, omitting what is accidental or trivial. Occasionally, however, is mistaken as all the other artists. Nevertheless it is what I take as a guide page.”

“Memoirs are a well-known form of fiction.”

“(...) always regretted that good memory often prevents us from thinking for ourselves.”

“Sex is the gateway to life.”