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When old settlers say 'One has to understand the country,' what they mean is, 'You have to get used to our ideas…
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When a white man in Africa by accident looks into the eyes of a native and sees the human being (which it…
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She was thirty-nine. No, she did not envy her eighteen-year- old self at all. But she did envy, envied every day more…
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A woman writer, quitting love before literature when love lets her down, will put literature before love.
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Oh cat, I'd say, or pray: be-ootiful cat! Delicious cat! Exquisite cat! Satiny cat! Cat like a soft owl, cat with paws…
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The smell of manure, of sun on foliage, of evaporating water, rose to my head; two steps farther, and I could look…
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It is our stories that will recreate us, when we are torn, hurt, even destroyed. It is the storyteller, the dream-maker, the…
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You only learn to be a better writer by actually writing.
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The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is…
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The creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate.
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Newspapers. . . give us the bald, sordid, disgusting facts of life. They chronicle, with degrading avidity, the sins of the second-rate,…
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In truth, the best Bitcoin can hope for is to be a second-rate version of gold, if that.
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I hope for so much from every book I read. And time and again, I find myself disappointed. I look across my…
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