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To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul. To Miss Mackay it is a putting in of...
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Let's face it -- who ever is adequate? We all create situations each other can't live up to, then break our hearts at...
No child on earth was ever meant to be ordinary, and you can see it in them, and they know it, too, but then the times...
It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City -- New York City is itself a detective...
Where an opinion is general, it is usually correct.Source: Mary Crawford, in...
Creation comes before distribution -- or there will be nothing to distribute. More about this quote
Dictionaries are always fun, but not always reassuring.Source: Dubious Honors,...
I don't want to control anybody's mind or anybody's heart -- I just want to help free people from the concert of sex...
If your energy is as boundless as your ambition, total commitment may be a way of life you should seriously...
God, the illogic! The impossibility of communication in this house. The sheer operation alone of getting something...
The feeling of Sunday is the same everywhere, heavy, melancholy, standing still. Like when they say, As it was in...
February, when the days of winter seem endless and no amount of wistful recollecting can bring back any air of...
. . . and many a good time we went back again, long afterward, and broke our rejected lump with great exultation to...
Hold up to him his better self, his real self that can dare and do and win out . . . People radiate what is in their...
Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves. [Nelly, in Wuthering Heights] More about this quote
But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope. More about this quote
What I do in the writing of any character is to try to enter into the mind, heart and skin of a human being who is not...
. . . time is compressed like the fist I close on my knee. . . . I hold inside it the clues and solutions and the...
What is a ruin but time easing itself of endurance?Source: Selected Works of Djuna...
The one thing a writer has to have is a pencil and some paper. That's enough, so long as she knows that she and she...
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