About Ambrose Bierce
Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce (June 24, 1842 – c. 1914) was an American author, journalist, and poet. A prolific and versatile writer, Bierce was regarded as one of the most influential journalists in the United States and as a pioneering writer of realist fiction. For his horror writing, Michael Dirda ranked...
More quotations from Ambrose Bierce
Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum (I think that I think, therefore I think that I am.)
There is nothing new under the sun but there are lots of old things we don't know.
Painting: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic.
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If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye.
I don't paint things. I only paint the difference between things.
Painting seems like some kind of peculiar miracle that I need to have again and again.
That's why people listen to music or look at paintings. To get in touch with that wholeness.