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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.

Source: Personal...

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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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Gore Vidal: It is the...

Gore Vidal: It is the...

It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, no matter how suspect, is superior to any imaginative exercise,...

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Gore Vidal: Most writers write...

Gore Vidal: Most writers write...

Most writers write books that they wouldn't read. I ought to know; I've done it myself.

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Lillian Smith: Faith and doubt...

Lillian Smith: Faith and doubt...

Faith and doubt both are needed -- not as antagonists, but working side by side -- to take us around the unknown...

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Marguerite Yourcenar: If I make...

Marguerite Yourcenar: If I make...

If I make it, I will carry a pencil instead of the ritual sword.

Source: On her...

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Edward Hoagland: Like a kick...

Edward Hoagland: Like a kick...

Like a kick in the butt, the force of events wakes slumberous talents.

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Edward Hoagland: Animals are stylized...

Edward Hoagland: Animals are stylized...

Animals are stylized characters in a kind of old saga --stylized because even the most acute of them have little...

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Jean Paul: The end we...

Jean Paul: The end we...

The end we aim at must be known, before the way can be made.

Source: In The...

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Jean Paul: Joys are our...

Jean Paul: Joys are our...

Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs.

Source: In The Ultimate Success Quotations...

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P G Wodehouse: While not exactly...

P G Wodehouse: While not exactly...

While not exactly disgruntled, he was far from feeling gruntled.

Source: The Code...

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Gay Talese: The Park Avenue...

Gay Talese: The Park Avenue...

The Park Avenue of poodles and polished brass; it is cab country, tip-town, glassville, a window-washer's...

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Alex Haley: Nobody can do...

Alex Haley: Nobody can do...

Nobody can do for little children what grandparents do. Grandparents sort of sprinkle stardust over the lives of...

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