WIST Quotations https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Sun, 14 Jun 2026 21:11:53 +0000 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://wist.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/little-w-little-box-60x60.jpg Simon, John – WIST Quotations https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 Simon, John -- “Fugard, Athol,” Contemporary Literary Criticism, Vol. 25 [ed. Jean Stine] (1983) https://wist.info/simon-john/14855/ https://wist.info/simon-john/14855/#respond Tue, 14 Jun 2011 12:32:29 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/?p=14855 [T]he ultimate evil is the weakness, cowardice, that is one of the constituents of so much human nature. When, rarely, unalloyed nobility does occur, its chances of prevailing are slim. Yet it exists, and its mere existence is reason enough for not wiping the name of mankind off the slate.


John Simon (1925-2019) American author and literary, theater, and film critic
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