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Joyce Carol Oates: Where we come...

Joyce Carol Oates: Where we come...

Where we come from in America no longer signifies. It's where we go, and what we do when we get there, that tells us...

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Joyce Carol Oates: Our house is...

Joyce Carol Oates: Our house is...

Our house is made of glass . . . and our lives are made of glass; and there is nothing we can do to protect...

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Djuna Barnes: Time is a...

Djuna Barnes: Time is a...

Time is a great conference planning our end, and youth is only the past putting a leg...

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James Joyce: Art is the...

James Joyce: Art is the...

Art is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an esthetic end.

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Robert Graves: I believe that...

Robert Graves: I believe that...

I believe that every English poet should read the English classics, master the rules of grammar before he attempts to...

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Robert Graves: Poetry is no...

Robert Graves: Poetry is no...

Poetry is no more a narcotic than a stimulant; it is a universal bittersweet mixture for all possible household...

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Georges Bernanos: Little things seem...

Georges Bernanos: Little things seem...

Little things seem nothing, but they give peace, like those meadow flowers which individually seem odorless but all...

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Georges Bernanos: Truth is meant...

Georges Bernanos: Truth is meant...

Truth is meant to save you first, and the comfort comes afterward.

Source: The...

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C P Snow: Civilization is hideously...

C P Snow: Civilization is hideously...

Civilization is hideously fragile [and] there's not much between us and the horrors underneath, just about a coat of...

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Anita Loos: Show business is...

Anita Loos: Show business is...

Show business is the best possible therapy for remorse.

Source: Kiss Hollywood...

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Willa Cather: What was any...

Willa Cather: What was any...

What was any art but an effort to make a sheath, a mold in which to imprison for a moment the shining, elusive element...

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Isaac Singer: Our knowledge is...

Isaac Singer: Our knowledge is...

Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge.

Source: In NY...

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Joseph Conrad: Any work that...

Joseph Conrad: Any work that...

Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every...

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Carson McCullers: The writer by...

Carson McCullers: The writer by...

The writer by nature of his profession is a dreamer and a conscious dreamer. He must imagine, and imagination takes...

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Katherine Anne Porter: Our being is...

Katherine Anne Porter: Our being is...

Our being is subject to all the chances of life. There are so many things we are capable of, that we could be or do....

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Katherine Anne Porter: Human life itself...

Katherine Anne Porter: Human life itself...

Human life itself may be almost pure chaos, but the work of the artist is to take these handfuls of confusion and...

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Otto von Bismarck: With a gentleman...

Otto von Bismarck: With a gentleman...

With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud and a...

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Otto von Bismarck: A government must...

Otto von Bismarck: A government must...

A government must not waiver once it has chosen it's course. It must not look to the left or right but go...

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Otto von Bismarck: When you say...

Otto von Bismarck: When you say...

When you say that you agree to a thing on principle, you mean that you have not the slightest intention of carrying it...

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Otto von Bismarck: Politics is not...

Otto von Bismarck: Politics is not...

Politics is not an exact science.

Source: Speech, Prussian Chamber, 18 Dec...

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