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We're not home-and-hearth people. We're the adventurers, the buccaneers, the blockade runners. Without challenge,...
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There is a world there, Winthrop, -- another sort of world -- where people know something; where other things are to...
He that hath no rule over his own spirit is like a city that is broken down and without...
A book comes and says, Write me. My job is to try to serve it to the best of my ability, which is never good enough,...
Who originated that most exquisite of inquisitions, the condolence system?Source:...
There; how d'ye like that, eh? A liberal education in twelve volumes, with an index. More about this quote
Bernard always had a few prayers in the hall and some whiskey afterwards as he was rather...
Artistic temperament . . . sometimes seems a battleground, a dark angel of destruction and a bright angel of...
From the American newspapers you'd think America was populated solely by naked women and cinema...
Culture is not a biologically transmitted complex.Source: Patterns of Culture,...
If you are too careful, you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over...
When I was a ten-year-old book worm and used to kiss the dust jacket pictures of authors as if they were icons, it...
It's a good thing to have all the props pulled out from under us occasionally. It gives us some sense of what is rock...
Give the people a new word and they think they have a new fact.Source: On Writing,...
. . . as she moved from table to table, endeavoring to understand the [gambling] games, she realized that either her...
My mother, religious-negro, proud of having waded through a storm, is, very obviously a sturdy bridge that I have...
You can't test courage cautiously.Source: Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, ch. 6,...
I write for myself and strangers. The strangers, dear readers, are an after-thought. More about this quote
The troubles of the young are soon over; they leave no external mark. If you wound the tree in its youth the bark will...
Probably one of the most private things in the world is an egg until it is broken. More about this quote
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