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The world has...

The world has...

The world has always gone through periods of madness so as to advance a bit on the road to...

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There is nothing...

There is nothing...

There is nothing in nature that can't be taken as a sign of both morality and...

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Anthropology [was] the...

Anthropology [was] the...

Anthropology [was] the science that gave her the platform from which she surveyed, scolded and beamed at the...

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Aphorisms are bad...

Aphorisms are bad...

Aphorisms are bad for novels. They stick in the reader's teeth.

Source: On Barbara...

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One cannot raise...

One cannot raise...

One cannot raise the bottom of society without benefitting everyone above.

Source:...

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The awesome antiphon...

The awesome antiphon...

The awesome antiphon swelled in the dark and expanded.

Source: On music at early...

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We appreciate frankness...

We appreciate frankness...

We appreciate frankness from those who like us. Frankness from others is called insolence.

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Arguments about Scripture...

Arguments about Scripture...

Arguments about Scripture achieve nothing but a stomachache and a headache.

Source:...

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A writer never...

A writer never...

A writer never reads his work. For him, it is the unreadable, a secret, and he cannot remain face to face with it. A...

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If you would...

If you would...

If you would be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams -- the more they are condensed, the deeper...

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Angling may be...

Angling may be...

Angling may be said to be so like mathematics that it can never be fully learnt.

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It is the...

It is the...

It is the nature of aphoristic thinking to be always in a state of concluding; a bid to have the final word is...

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Journalism - an...

Journalism - an...

Journalism - an ability to meet the challenge of filling the space.

Source: The New...

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Any authentic work...

Any authentic work...

Any authentic work of art must start as an argument between the artist and his audience.

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Sound character provides...

Sound character provides...

Sound character provides the power with which a person may ride the emergencies of life instead of being overwhelmed...

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I think of...

I think of...

I think of art, at its most significant, as a DEW line, a Distant Early Warning system that can always be relied on to...

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If the nineteenth...

If the nineteenth...

If the nineteenth century was the age of the editorial chair, ours is the century of the psychiatrist's...

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Borrowers of books...

Borrowers of books...

Borrowers of books -- those mutilators of collections, spoilers of the symmetry of shelves, and creators of odd...

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Though her mien...

Though her mien...

Though her mien carries much more invitation than command, to behold her is an immediate check to loose behaviour; to...

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Elegance is innate....

Elegance is innate....

Elegance is innate. It has nothing to do with being well dressed. Elegance is refusal.

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