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Walter Benjamin: All human knowledge...

Walter Benjamin: All human knowledge...

All human knowledge takes the form of interpretation.

Source: Letter, 9 Dec. 1923;...

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Walter Benjamin: The art of...

Walter Benjamin: The art of...

The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying...

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Mary Renault: You can make...

Mary Renault: You can make...

You can make an audience see nearly anything, if you yourself believe in it.

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F Scott Fitzgerald: An idea ran...

F Scott Fitzgerald: An idea ran...

An idea ran back and forward in his head like a blind man, knocking over the solid...

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F Scott Fitzgerald: No grand idea...

F Scott Fitzgerald: No grand idea...

No grand idea was ever born in a conference, but a lot of foolish ideas have died there.

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Henry James, Jr: She felt in...

Henry James, Jr: She felt in...

She felt in italics and thought in capitals.

Source: In Correct Quotes for DOS,...

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Anais Nin: There are very...

Anais Nin: There are very...

There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them...

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Gertrude Stein: It takes a...

Gertrude Stein: It takes a...

It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing...

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Flannery O'Connor: Anybody who has...

Flannery O'Connor: Anybody who has...

Anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his...

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Colette: Sit down and...

Colette: Sit down and...

Sit down and put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a writer. But an author is one who can...

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Jessamyn West: A rattlesnake that...

Jessamyn West: A rattlesnake that...

A rattlesnake that doesn't bite teaches you nothing.

Source: The Life I Really...

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Max Eastman: I don't know...

Max Eastman: I don't know...

I don't know why it is we are in such a hurry to get up when we fall down. You might think we would lie there and rest...

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Mickey Spillane: If you're a...

Mickey Spillane: If you're a...

If you're a singer you lose your voice. A baseball player loses his arm. A writer gets more knowledge, and if he's...

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Robert Fulghum: All I really...

Robert Fulghum: All I really...

All I really need to know about how to live and what to do and how to be I learned in kindergarten. Remember the...

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Robert Stone: One is improvising...

Robert Stone: One is improvising...

One is improvising when one writes, and you pick up in the same way a musician starts to improvise and detect the...

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Homer: Many shining actions...

Homer: Many shining actions...

Many shining actions owe their success to chance, though the general or statesman receive the...

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Samuel Smiles: Where there is...

Samuel Smiles: Where there is...

'Where there is a will there is a way,' is an old and true saying. He who resolves upon doing a thing, by that very...

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Kenneth Grahame: As a rule,...

Kenneth Grahame: As a rule,...

As a rule, indeed, grown-up people are fairly correct on matters of fact; it is in the higher gift of imagination that...

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Francois Rabelais: In their rules...

Francois Rabelais: In their rules...

In their rules there was only one clause: Do what you will.

Source: Referring to...

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Henry James, Jr: The advantage, the...

Henry James, Jr: The advantage, the...

The advantage, the luxury, as well as the torment of the novelist, is that there is no limit to what he may attempt-...

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