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Marcus Fabius Quintilian: The pretended admission...

Marcus Fabius Quintilian: The pretended admission...

The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression.

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Hannah Arendt: It is quite...

Hannah Arendt: It is quite...

It is quite gratifying to feel guilty if you haven't done anything wrong: how noble! Whereas it is rather hard and...

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Earl Warren: I always turn...

Earl Warren: I always turn...

I always turn to the sports page first, which records people's accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man's...

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Wilhelm von Humboldt: Possession, it is...

Wilhelm von Humboldt: Possession, it is...

Possession, it is true, crowns exertion with rest; but it is only in the illusions of fancy that it has power to charm...

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Wilhelm von Humboldt: If it were...

Wilhelm von Humboldt: If it were...

If it were possible to make an accurate calculation of the evils which police regulations occasion, and of those which...

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A E Housman: And silence sounds...

A E Housman: And silence sounds...

And silence sounds no worse than cheers
After death has stopped the ears.


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A E Housman: That is the...

A E Housman: That is the...

That is the land of lost content,
I see it shining plain,
The happy highways where I went
And cannot come...

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Annie Dillard: Appealing workplaces are...

Annie Dillard: Appealing workplaces are...

Appealing workplaces are to be avoided. One wants a room with no view, so imagination can meet memory in the...

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Natalia Ginzburg: Children should be...

Natalia Ginzburg: Children should be...

Children should be taught not the little virtues but the great ones. Not thrift but generosity and an indifference to...

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Harriet Beecher Stowe: Everyone confesses that...

Harriet Beecher Stowe: Everyone confesses that...

Everyone confesses that exertion which brings out all the powers of body and mind is the best thing for us; but most...

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Jessamyn West: Fiction is [a...

Jessamyn West: Fiction is [a...

Fiction is [a form of writing which] reveals truths that reality obscures.

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Ernest J Gaines: I have learned...

Ernest J Gaines: I have learned...

I have learned as much about writing about my people by listening to blues and jazz and spirituals as I have by...

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Ernest J Gaines: Question everything. Every...

Ernest J Gaines: Question everything. Every...

Question everything. Every stripe, every star, every word spoken. Everything.

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Ishmael Reed: I try to...

Ishmael Reed: I try to...

I try to do what has never been done before.

Source: In African-American Writers,...

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Robert Stone: I write a...

Robert Stone: I write a...

I write a very rough first draft of every chapter, then I rewrite every chapter. I try to get it down in the first...

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Louis L'Amour: No memory is...

Louis L'Amour: No memory is...

No memory is ever alone; it's at the end of a trail of memories, a dozen trails that each have their own...

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Lydia M Child: There was a...

Lydia M Child: There was a...

There was a time when all these things would have passed me by, like the flitting figures of a theatre, sufficient for...

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Beatrix Potter: Don't go into...

Beatrix Potter: Don't go into...

Don't go into Mr. McGregor's garden: your Father had an accident there; he was put in a pie by Mrs....

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Kenneth Grahame: The strongest human...

Kenneth Grahame: The strongest human...

The strongest human instinct is to impart information, the second strongest is to resist...

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Robertson Davies: Imagination is a...

Robertson Davies: Imagination is a...

Imagination is a good horse to carry you over the ground -- not a flying carpet to set you free from...

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