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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,…
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In the Western tradition, the first writers were teachers and historians, vastly traveled, who spiced their reports with fantasies. They were also…
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My reading of philosophy and history is desultory; I know so much and yet so little.
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Poetry, fiction as novels or short stories - these are autonomous as created by their authors. They should stand on their own,…
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You should live in a manner that should enable you to devote time to writing and contemplation. As is often said, the…
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Writing is a solitary profession; you are really alone when you write. Then the emotions become well shaped and distinct. But their…
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Contemplation is a luxury of the middle class, the very rich.
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I can imagine the writers of China, England and France, crippled and unsure of themselves when they feel that the ghosts of…
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A weak people and its equally debilitated leaders are bludgeoned by history. It maims them into the cripples that they are meant…
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This is the harsh truth about us: not only do Filipinos ignore books, literature - we do not understand how important the…
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Japan is very cosmopolitan - it values its origins, but a world view hovers above this narrow perspective. The interest of the…
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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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We go to sanctuaries to remember the things we hold most dear, the things we cherish and love. And then-the great challenge-we…
— William Cronon
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Don’t sanctuaries become prisons, and vice versa, foremost in the mind?
— Chang-Rae Lee
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We ought to be providing protective sanctuaries for the Kurdish rebels. That means finding some places where they can come and to…
— Les Aspin
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Taking on all at once Germany, Japan, and Italy - diverse enemies all - did not require the weeding out of all…
— Victor Davis Hanson
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But the war on terror as I have repeatedly said in the past, and the Afghan people believe in it, in truth,…
— Hamid Karzai
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Be sanctuaries of respect for life, proclaiming the sacredness of every human life from conception to natural death
— Pope Francis
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The liberation of the human mind has never been furthered by dunderheads; it has been furthered by gay fellows who heaved dead…
— H. L. Mencken
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To admit authorities, however heavily furred and gowned, into our libraries and let them tell us how to read, what to read,…
— Virginia Woolf
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We can worship Christ in our sanctuaries and we can pray to God on our knees, but how we treat - or…
— Ann Voskamp
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I believe not only that religious faith will be victorious, but that it is vital to humankind that it shall be. We…
— Herbert Hoover
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I love zoo sanctuaries.
— Nancy Travis
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If you want to humble an empire it makes sense to maim its cathedrals. They are symbols of its faith, and when…
— Nancy Gibbs
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