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The real meditation is ... the meditation on one's identity. Ah, voilĂ une chose!! You try it. You try finding out why…
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If a nation's literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.
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I have always thought the suicide should bump off at least one swine before taking off for parts unknown.
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The intellect is a very nice whirligig toy, but how people take it seriously is more than I can understand.
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The only chance for victory over the brainwash is the right of every man to have his ideas judged one at a…
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Fit for kings, formal gardens afford an earthly Elysium and the odd impression that we mere men might actually control nature for…
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All my life I believed I knew something. But then one strange day came when I realized that I knew nothing, yes,…
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Utter originality is, of course, out of the question.
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The artist is the antenna of the race.
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The Image is more than an idea. It is a vortex or cluster of fused ideas and is endowed with energy.
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A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions It is classic because of a…
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If a patron buys from an artist who needs money (needs money to buy tools, time, food), the patron then makes himself…
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Anybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers.
— Mel Brooks
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Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it. A good writer turns fact into truth; a bad writer will, more often…
— Edward Albee
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I don't think that there are very many good writers who don't live without a sense of tension. If they haven't got…
— John le Carre
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So many interviews, even ones that I consider really intelligent and good writers, will do the, like, 'Oh, you're not taking your…
— Lorde
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Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it.
— Edward Albee
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Good writers are in the business of leaving signposts saying, Tour my world, see and feel it through my eyes; I am…
— Larry L. King
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Good writers are visible just behind their words.
— William Zinsser
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I've always thought that a lot of really good writers go wrong by getting so into the craft and the technique and…
— Patterson Hood
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Stargate by far is the top of the pile when it comes to Sci-Fi. The quality is great. They have really good…
— Corin Nemec
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Most writers write to say something about other people - and it doesn't last. Good writers write to find out about themselves…
— Gloria Steinem
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Good writers are of necessity rare.
— George Henry Lewes
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On the other hand, at some level the mass of unresolved issues in Northern Ireland does influence the fact that there are…
— Paul Muldoon
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