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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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In the writing process, the more the story cooks, the better. The brain works for you even when you are at rest.…
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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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Writing, therefore, is also an act of courage. How much easier is it to lead an unexamined life than to confront yourself…
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Anti-theses.- The most senile thing ever thought about man is contained in the celebrated saying 'the ego is always hateful'; the most…
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I am grateful for - though I can't keep up with - the flood of articles, theses, and textbooks that mean to…
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Ministry is being one of theses sent out ones, a labourer of love.
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And it does no harm to repeat, as often as you can, 'Without me the literary industry would not exist: the publishers,…
— Doris Lessing
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People will be discovering that the Internet helps their career. One of my theses is that every individual is now a small…
— Reid Hoffman
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As long as the two nuclear superpowers maintain arsenals in the tens of thousands of nuclear warheads, there is no way they…
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It is generally assumed that recurrent miscarriage may be due to progesterone deficiency, hypothyroidism or vitamin E deficiency and should be treated…
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