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The test of literature is, I suppose, whether we ourselves live more intensely for the reading of it.
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Propaganda has a bad name, but its root meaning is simply to disseminate through a medium, and all writing therefore is propaganda…
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It takes two to write a letter as much as it takes two to make a quarrel.
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The inspired scribbler always has the gift for gossip in our common usage he or she can always inspire the commonplace with…
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The torment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital force and…
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Democracy, like any non-coercive relationship, rests on a shared understanding of limits.
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The world is not run by thought, nor by imagination, but by opinion.
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The Republicans’ plan is that if they can’t buy the 2012 election they will steal it.
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How frail and ephemeral is the material substance of letters, which makes their very survival so hazardous. Print has a permanence of…
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We read poetry because the poets, like ourselves, have been haunted by the inescapable tyranny of time and death; have suffered the…
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Too often travel, instead of broadening the mind, merely lengthens the conversations.
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Travel, instead of broadening the mind, often merely lengthens the conversation.
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