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From the American newspapers you'd think America was populated solely by naked women and cinema...
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We need to find the courage to say NO to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover...
You can't test courage cautiously.Source: Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, ch. 6,...
It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanism of friendship. More about this quote
Every human being has, like Socrates, an attendant spirit; and wise are they who obey its signals. If it does not...
I don't mind . . . the fun and games of being treated like a fragile flower. But as a physiologist working with the...
I suppose art is the only thing that can go on mattering once it has stopped hurting. More about this quote
No; we have been as usual asking the wrong question. It does not matter a hoot what the mockingbird on the chimney is...
Oh, I wish I were a miser; being a miser must be so occupying.Source: Quoted by...
The popular idea that a child forgets easily is not an accurate one. Many people go right through life in the grip of...
The best time for planning a book is while you're doing the dishes.Source: In An...
I've always believed in writing without a collaborator, because where two people are writing the same book, each...
I am continually fascinated at the difficulty intelligent people have in distinguishing what is controversial from...
Nowhere is one more alone than in Paris. . . and yet surrounded by crowds. Nowhere is one more likely to incur greater...
New York is the meeting place of the peoples, the only city where you can hardly find a typical...
Art should simplify. That is very nearly the whole of the higher artistic process; finding what conventions of form...
Our hunger for foreign places and new ways has been with us [Americans] almost like a national disease. Our literature...
You have to speak clearly and simply and purely in a language that a six-year-old child can understand; and yet have...
I think the adjective post-modernist really means mannerist. Books about books is fun but...
II would advise any beginning writer to write the first drafts as if no one else will ever read them -- without a...
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