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Art is a gift: you create and then you give away. How readers receive that gift is their business. If they hate…
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A realization that the founding principle of existence is what we call love, which works itself out sometimes not clearly, not cleanly,…
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If literature does one thing, it makes you more empathetic by making you live other lives and feel the pain of others.…
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Life on a lifeboat isn't much of a life. It is like an end game in chess, a game with a few…
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A great literary work can be completely, completely unpredictable. Which can sometimes make them very hard to read, but it gives them…
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Books are something social - a writer speaking to a reader - so I think making the reading of a book the…
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If you don't have dreams, how do you maneuver reality? Where do you get the ideas to change reality if not from…
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My zoology thesis was a functional analysis of the thyroid gland of the three-toed sloth. I chose the sloth because its demeanour…
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Sometimes I got my majors mixed up. A number of my fellow religious-studies students - muddled agnostics who didn't know which way…
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When the course of experience made me see that there is no saviour and no special grace, no remission beyond the human,…
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It is a vast country, so that inspires you. It's also the greatest hotel on earth: It welcomes people from everywhere. It's…
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Music is a bird's answer to the noise and heaviness of words. It puts the mind in a state of exhilarated speechlessness.…
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The thing that you have to understand about those of us in the Black Muslim movement was that all of us believed…
— Malcolm X
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If the weak hand, that has recorded this tale, has, by its scenes, beguiled the mourner of one hour of sorrow, or,…
— Ann Radcliffe
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As a ballplayer, (Dizzy) Dean was a natural phenomenon, like the Grand Canyon or the Great Barrier Reef. Nobody ever taught him…
— Red Smith
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It seemed so illogical to punish some poor criminal for doing something that civilization taught him how to do so he could…
— Chester Himes
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If you're ever selling your house, and some people come by, and a big rat comes out and he's dragging the rattrap…
— Jack Handey
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He is a dull observer whose experience has not taught him the reality and force of magic, as well as of chemistry.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Man's most human characteristic is not his ability to learn, which he shares with many other species, but his ability to teach…
— Margaret Mead
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In his sophomore year Wilbanks tried out for the high school basketball team and made it. On the first day of practice…
— Lynn G. Robbins
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It is true that the poet does not directly address his neighbors; but he does address a great congress of persons who…
— Richard Wilbur
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The newspaper has debauched the American until he is a slavish, simpering, and angerless citizen; it has taught him to be a…
— Edward Dahlberg
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Philemon explained how Jung treated thoughts as though they were generated by himself, while for Philemon thoughts were like animals in the…
— Stanislav Grof
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How can you dare teach a man to read until you've taught him everything else first?
— George Bernard Shaw
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