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We [the USA] do have a big nation's problem. We have the problem of a nation that's got two oceans, oceans on… — Donald Rumsfeld Copy Share Image
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Magicians and scientists are, on the face of it, poles apart. Certainly, a group of people who often dress strangely, live in… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
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I had no one to help me, but the T. S. Eliot helped me. So when people say that poetry is a… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
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The morning is full of storm in the heart of summer. The clouds travel like white handkerchiefs of goodbye, the wind, travelling,… — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
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Three words that still have meaning, that I think we can apply to all professional writing, are discovery, originality, invention.The professional writer… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
External realities - worlds of politics, economics, law, war, interpersonal and social relations - are part of prose fiction. Fiction also includes… — Lawrence Joseph Copy Share Image
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The language of salesmanship was no doubt born with the first fashions in fig leaves in the garden of Eden. A strange… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
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Obstacles are necessary companions to expression, and we know that the positive element in language is not in its obstructiveness. Exclusively viewed… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
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