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- Learn punctuation; it is your little drum set, one of the few tools oyu have to signal the reader where the beats and emphases go.…
- When you write, you lay out a line of words. The line of words is a miner's pick, a wood carver's gouge, a surgeon's probe.…
- Why are we reading if not in hope that the writer will magnify and dramatize our days, will illuminate and inspire us with wisdom, courage,…
- Today is one of those excellent January partly cloudies in which light chooses an unexpected part of the landscape to trick out in gilt, and…
- The mind wants the world to return its love, or its awareness; the mind wants to know all the world, and all eternity, and God.
- I don't know what it is about fecundity that so appalls. I suppose it is the teeming evidence that birth and growth, which we value,…
- No, the point is not only does time fly and do we die, but that in these reckless conditions we live at all, and are…
- He is careful of what he reads, for that is what he will write. He is careful of what he learns, for that is what…
- One of the few things I know about writing is this: Spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it, all, right away, every time.…
- It has always been a happy thought to me that the creek runs on all night, new every minute, whether I wish it or know…
- It has always been a happy thought to me that the creek runs on all night, new every minute, whether I wish it or know…
- An Inuit hunter asked the local missionary priest: If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell? No, said the…
- Eskimo: If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell? Priest: No, not if you did not know. Eskimo: Then…
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- I am, indeed, a king, because I know how to rule myself. — Pietro Aretino
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