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- I get up every morning determined to both change the world and to have one hell of a good time. Sometimes, this makes planning the…
- A candidate could easily commit political suicide if he were to come up with an unconventional thought during a presidential tour.
- I can still see my first dog. For six years he met me at the same place after school and convoyed me home - a…
- A man who publishes his letters becomes a nudist - nothing shields him from the world's gaze except his bare skin. A writer, writing away,…
- It isn't silence you can cut with a knife any more, it's interchange of ideas. Intelligent discussion of practically everything is what is breaking up…
- Our vegetable garden is coming along well, with radishes and beans up, and we are less worried about revolution that we used to be.
- I have no warm up exercises, other than to take an occasional drink.
- New York is to the nation what the white church spire is to the village - the visible symbol of aspiration and faith, the white…
- By helping you, perhaps I was trying to lift up my life a trifle. Heaven knows anyone's life can stand a little of that.
- Much of our adult morality, in books and out of them, has a stuffiness unworthy of childhood. Our grown-up conclusions often rest on perilously soft…
- A writer should concern himself with whatever absorbs his fancy, stirs his heart, and unlimbers his typewriter. ... A writer has the duty to be…
- The so-called science of poll-taking is not a science at all but mere necromancy. People are unpredictable by nature, and although you can take a…
- Life's accumulation is more discouraging than life itself, when stirred up.
- You have been my friend. That in itself is a tremendous thing. I wove my webs for you because I liked you. After all, what's…
- There is another sort of day which needs celebrating in song -- the day of days when spring at last holds up her face to…
- Anyone who writes down to children is simply wasting his time. You have to write up, not down. Children are demanding. They are the most…
- Stuart rose from the ditch, climbed into his car, and started up the road that led toward the north...As he peeked ahead into the great…
- Fern was up at daylight, trying to rid the world of injustice. As a result, she now has a pig. A small one to be…
- The mind travels faster than the pen; consequently, writing becomes a question of learning to make occasional wing shots, bringing down the bird of thought…
- The siren south is well enough, but New York, at the beginning of March, is a hoyden we would not care to miss-a drafty wench,…
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- Yet, so far from laboring to know the forbidden tree of worldly pleasures and its various fruits, man gives himself up to… — Johann Arndt
- I grew up in a working-class family, so I guess you could say I write from what I know. — Andrea Arnold