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Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more.
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Letters are above all useful as a means of expressing the ideal self; and no other method of communication is quite so…
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Canadians, do not vomit on me!
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It is June. This is what I have decided to do with my life just now. I will do this work and…
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Now, my novel begins. No, now I begin my novel—and yet I cannot decide whether to call myself I or she.
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While you are living, part of you has slipped away to the cemetery.
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Sentences in which I have tried for a certain light tone -- many of those have to do with events, upheavals, destructions…
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How certain human beings are able to create works of art is a mystery, and why they should wish to do so,…
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Making a living is nothing; the great difficulty is making a point, making a difference-with words.
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The language of the younger generation has the brutality of the city and an assertion of threatening power at hand, not to…
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Memory - the very skin of life.
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The fifties - they seem to have taken place on a sunny afternoon that asked nothing of you except a drifting belief…
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It appears that all that can be, is. The Creator's hand does not appear to have been opened in order to give…
— Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
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Sentences in which I have tried for a certain light tone -- many of those have to do with events, upheavals, destructions…
— Elizabeth Hardwick
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Even in a minute instance, it is best to look first to the main tendencies of Nature. A particular flower may not…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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And many more Destructions played In this ghastly masquerade, All disguised, even to the eyes, Like Bishops, lawyers, peers, or spies.
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
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One challenge of our adventure on earth is to rise above dead systems...wars, nations, destructions...to refuse to be a part of them,…
— Richard Bach
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I believe until fairly recently our destructions of nature were more or less unwitting -- the by-products, so to speak, of our…
— Wendell Berry
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These people yapped loudly of race, of race consciousness, of race pride, and yet suppressed its most delightful manifestations, love of color,…
— Nella Larsen
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