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The circumstance which gives authors an advantage above all these great masters, is this, that they can multiply their originals; or rather, can make…

— Joseph Addison

We call ourselves a free nation, and yet we let ourselves be told what cabs we can and can't take by a man at…

— Robert Benchley

Korea's first Zen Master-poet wrote simple yet elegant poetry of the world he inhabited, both physically and spiritually, and of daily insights-a pause along…

— Sam Hamill

I am spending delightful afternoons in my garden, watching everything living around me. As I grow older, I feel everything departing, and I love…

— Emile Zola

I am rather saddened at the end of a book. I think most writers find this. It's like a friend departing on a voyage.

— Margaret Atwood

Director and producers have to take all the risks they can. We developed this film with the possibility to create departing from a blank…

— Alex Abreu

Both Iraq and Syria are a fissile mixture of ethnicities and religions thrown together after Versailles by departing French and British imperialists and only…

— Michael Ignatieff

My fellow critics and I may occasionally fault a movie for departing, in detail or in spirit, from its literary source, but the grousing…

— A. O. Scott

[Books] will visit you at your convenience, whether you are lonesome or not, on rainy days or fair. They propose themselves as either transient…

— Clifton Fadiman

The Death of the contemporary forms of social order ought to gladden rather than trouble the soul. Yet what is frightening is that the…

— Alexander Herzen

“Sometimes in life, we reach a right place by departing from a wrong port with a wrong ship!”

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

Being consistent meant not departing from convictions already formulated; being a leader meant making other persons accept these convictions. It was a narrow track,…

— Jessamyn West

When we struggle for human rights, for freedom, for dignity, when we feel that it is a ministry of the church to concern itself…

— Anonymous

Consider the core of the mind to be a wagon, with will-power to be carried about in it. Push it to a place where…

— Takuan Soho

Elevated locations imply elevated purposes, even in American cities departing as radically as Los Angeles does from the traditional planning patterns of the Eastern…

— Martin Filler