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Harry Crews: Teaching, real teaching,...

Harry Crews: Teaching, real teaching,...

Teaching, real teaching, is -- or ought to be -- a messy business.

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Harry Crews: What the artist...

Harry Crews: What the artist...

What the artist owes the world is his work; not a model for living.

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Patrick White: All my novels...

Patrick White: All my novels...

All my novels are an accumulation of detail. I'm a bit of a bower-bird.

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Angus Wilson: He would give...

Angus Wilson: He would give...

He would give them his every imitation from 'Eton and Oxford' to the flushing of the lavatory cistern, and so,...

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Angus Wilson: God knows how...

Angus Wilson: God knows how...

God knows how you Protestants can be expected to have any sense of direction,' she said. 'It's different with us. I...

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Clive Barker: I've always thought...

Clive Barker: I've always thought...

I've always thought that the most extraordinary special effect you could do is to buy a child at the moment of its...

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Clive Barker: And we'll watch...

Clive Barker: And we'll watch...

'And we'll watch and photograph you for ten years after you die, then we'll run the film.' Wouldn't that be...

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Madeleine L'Engle: Be aware that...

Madeleine L'Engle: Be aware that...

Be aware that rigidity imprisons.

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-- Madeleine L'Engle, (Nov 28...

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Madeleine L'Engle: If you're going...

Madeleine L'Engle: If you're going...

If you're going to care about the fall of the sparrow you can't pick and choose who's going to be the...

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Upton Sinclair: The remedy [for...

Upton Sinclair: The remedy [for...

The remedy [for the Great Depression] is to give the workers access to the means of production, and let them produce...

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Thomas Wolfe: Men will often...

Thomas Wolfe: Men will often...

Men will often say they have 'found themselves' when they have really been worn down into a groove by the brutal and...

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Laurence Sterne: An actor should...

Laurence Sterne: An actor should...

An actor should be able to create the universe in the palm of his hand.

Source: In...

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Laurence Sterne: Tis known by...

Laurence Sterne: Tis known by...

'Tis known by the name of perseverance in a good cause -- and of obstinacy in a bad one.

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Douglas Adams: Human beings, who...

Douglas Adams: Human beings, who...

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable...

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Chinua Achebe: A man who...

Chinua Achebe: A man who...

A man who makes trouble for others is also making trouble for himself.

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Knut Hamsun: In old age...

Knut Hamsun: In old age...

In old age . . . we are like a batch of letters that someone has sent. We are no longer in the past, we have...

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Nadine Gordimer: Censorship is never...

Nadine Gordimer: Censorship is never...

Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the...

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Toni Morrison: And like any...

Toni Morrison: And like any...

And like any artist with no art form, she became dangerous.

Source: Sula,...

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Anna Sewell: There is no...

Anna Sewell: There is no...

There is no religion without love, and people may talk as much as they like about their religion, but if it does not...

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Amy Tan: Who knows where...

Amy Tan: Who knows where...

Who knows where inspiration comes from? Perhaps it arises from desperation. Perhaps it comes from the flukes of the...

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