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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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Ambition has its disappointments to sour us, but never the good fortune to satisfy us. Its appetite grows keener by indulgence and…
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We are always looking to the future; the present does not satisfy us. Our ideal, whatever it may be, lies further on.
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The spirit of encroachment tends to consolidate the powers of all the departments in one, and thus to create whatever the form…
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The pleasures of the world are deceitful; they promise more than they give. They trouble us in seeking them, they do not…
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When discipline is sown, like a good seed, it yields a harvest of things that fulfill and satisfy us-things that make us…
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We are made for God, and nothing less will ever satisfy us
— Brennan Manning
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In this age of inventive wonders all men have come to believe that in some genius' brain sleeps the solution of the…
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The goal lies away from the sensual world. It is not a rejection of the sensual world, but understanding it so well…
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Nothing is more often misdiagnosed than our homesickness for Heaven. We think that what we want is sex, drugs, alcohol, a new…
— Randy Alcorn
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God is waiting to satisfy us, yet His goodness will not satisfy us if we are already full of other things.
— John Bevere
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To love women, to love our vaginas, to know them and touch them and be familiar with who we are and what…
— Eve Ensler
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What intrigues us as a problem, and what will satisfy us as a solution, will depend upon the line we draw between…
— Nelson Goodman
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