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Ansel Adams: In my mind's...

Ansel Adams: In my mind's...

In my mind's eye, I visualize how a particular . . . sight and feeling will appear on a print. If it excites me, there...

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Jean-Paul Sartre: Three o'clock is...

Jean-Paul Sartre: Three o'clock is...

Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.

Source:...

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Martin Delany: Our elevation must...

Martin Delany: Our elevation must...

Our elevation must be the result of self-efforts and work of our own hands. No other human power can accomplish it. If...

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A pat on...

A pat on...

A pat on the back, through only a few vertebrae removed from a kick in the pants, is miles ahead in...

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In the writing...

In the writing...

In the writing process, the more the story cooks, the better. The brain works for you even when you are at rest. I...

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Aeschylus: What is there...

Aeschylus: What is there...

What is there more kindly than the feelings between host and guest?

Source: 'The...

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John Dalberg Acton: Writers the most...

John Dalberg Acton: Writers the most...

Writers the most learned, the most accurate in details, and the soundest in tendency, frequently fall into a habit...

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Harriet Tubman: On my underground...

Harriet Tubman: On my underground...

On my underground railroad I never ran my train off the track. And I never lost a...

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The fifties --...

The fifties --...

The fifties -- they seem to have taken place on a sunny afternoon that asked nothing of you except a drifting belief...

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No fine work...

No fine work...

No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt.

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A technical objection...

A technical objection...

A technical objection is the first refuge of a scoundrel.

Source: In New Republic,...

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Ideas move rapidly...

Ideas move rapidly...

Ideas move rapidly when their time comes.

Source: Toward a Recognition of...

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A fiction about...

A fiction about...

A fiction about soft or easy deaths. . . is part of the mythology of most diseases that are not considered shameful or...

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What's terrible is...

What's terrible is...

What's terrible is to pretend that the second-rate is first-rate, that you don't need love when you do or that you...

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This would be...

This would be...

This would be a much better world if more married couples were as deeply in love as they are in...

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G C Lichtenberg: Before we blame...

G C Lichtenberg: Before we blame...

Before we blame we should first see whether we cannot excuse.

Source: Aphorisms,...

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Answer them [critics]...

Answer them [critics]...

Answer them [critics] with silence and indifference. It works better, I assure you, than anger and argument. . ....

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Jean Anouilh: Have you noticed...

Jean Anouilh: Have you noticed...

Have you noticed that life, real honest to goodness life, with murders and catastrophes and fabulous inheritances,...

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Edith Evans: Death is my...

Edith Evans: Death is my...

Death is my neighbour now.

Source: Said a week before her death. BBC radio...

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Isaac Newton: It is the...

Isaac Newton: It is the...

It is the weight, not numbers, of experiments that is to be regarded.

Source: The...

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