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It is, I think, an error to believe that there is any need of religion to make life seem worth living.
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People will buy anything that is one to a customer.
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Writing is just work-there's no secret. If you dictate or use a pen or type or write with your toes-it's still just…
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It is impossible to discourage the real writers - they don't give a damn what you say, they're going to write.
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Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
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Writers kid themselves-about themselves and other people. Take the talk about writing methods. Writing is just work-there's no secret. If you dictate…
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A sensational event was changing from the brown suit to the gray the contents of his pockets. He was earnest about these…
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Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.
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When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross.
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Most troubles are unnecessary. We have Nature beaten; we can make her grow wheat; we can keep warm when she sends blizzards.…
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It has not yet been recorded that any human being has gained a very large or permanent contentment from meditation upon the…
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Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile. In protest, I declined election to the National Institute…
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A lot of young poets today, from what I've heard and experienced, can't get their heads past George W. Bush, and I've…
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There are dozens of young poets and fictioneers most of them a little insane in the tradition of James Joyce, who, however…
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At the age of 18 all young poets are sure they will be dead at 21 - of old age.
— Marguerite Young
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I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose = words in their…
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Young poets bewail the passing of love; old poets, the passing of time. There is surprisingly little difference.
— Mason Cooley
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I was well acquainted with the Calcutta literary circle since I was 17, when I lived in Bangladesh and published and edited…
— Taslima Nasrin
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It's interesting how young poets think of death while old fogies think of girls.
— Bohumil Hrabal
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...few young poets [are] testing their poems against the ear. They're writing for the page, and the page, let me tell you,…
— Stanley Kunitz
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