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Language as a communication tool is the primary element from which literature is created. Even in pre-literate societies, it exists as songs,…
In the Western tradition, the first writers were teachers and historians, vastly traveled, who spiced their reports with fantasies. They were also…
My reading of philosophy and history is desultory; I know so much and yet so little.
Poetry, fiction as novels or short stories - these are autonomous as created by their authors. They should stand on their own,…
You should live in a manner that should enable you to devote time to writing and contemplation. As is often said, the…
Writing is a solitary profession; you are really alone when you write. Then the emotions become well shaped and distinct. But their…
Contemplation is a luxury of the middle class, the very rich.
I can imagine the writers of China, England and France, crippled and unsure of themselves when they feel that the ghosts of…
A weak people and its equally debilitated leaders are bludgeoned by history. It maims them into the cripples that they are meant…
This is the harsh truth about us: not only do Filipinos ignore books, literature - we do not understand how important the…
Japan is very cosmopolitan - it values its origins, but a world view hovers above this narrow perspective. The interest of the…
I was a senior high school student at the Far Eastern University when the war with Japan broke out in 1941.

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Science would be ruined if (like sports) it were to put competition above everything else, and if it were to clarify the… — Benoit Mandelbrot
The abstraction is often the most definite form for the intangible thing in myself that I can clarify in paint. — Georgia O'Keeffe
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Be patient with the negative people of the world. Take a moment to think how they are helping you clarify your own… — Deacon Jones
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He can be regarded as the great master of simplification. The art of resolving the tension at the critical moment and in… — Max Euwe
To refine, to clarify, to intensify that eternal moment in which we alone live there is but a single force the imagination. — William Carlos Williams
Our intention is to clarify and modernize overtime pay rules, — Elaine Chao
To clarify, the issue isn't that I'm too fat, it's that I'm too phat. Can I get a WHAT-WHAT! — Casey Wilson
Emphasis on technique is justified only so far as it will simplify and clarify the statement of the photographer's concept. — Ansel Adams
All I can do in my writing is to stimulate a certain amount of thought, clarify some technical facts and date my… — Ansel Adams
Absolutely, but let me qualify that-I consider myself an authentic feminist. Not as defined by the modern movement. And, let me clarify… — Christine O'Donnell

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