"The inspired scribbler always has the gift for……" — Elizabeth Drew
"The inspired scribbler always has the gift for gossip in our common usage he or she can always inspire the commonplace with an uncommon flavor, and transform trivialities by some original grace or sympathy or humor or affection."
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13 Quotes by Elizabeth Drew
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The test of literature is, I suppose, whether we ourselves live more intensely for the reading of it.
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Propaganda has a bad name, but its root meaning is simply to disseminate through a medium, and all writing therefore…
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It takes two to write a letter as much as it takes two to make a quarrel.
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The torment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital…
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Democracy, like any non-coercive relationship, rests on a shared understanding of limits.
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The world is not run by thought, nor by imagination, but by opinion.
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The Republicans’ plan is that if they can’t buy the 2012 election they will steal it.
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How frail and ephemeral is the material substance of letters, which makes their very survival so hazardous. Print has a…
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We read poetry because the poets, like ourselves, have been haunted by the inescapable tyranny of time and death; have…
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Too often travel, instead of broadening the mind, merely lengthens the conversations.
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Travel, instead of broadening the mind, often merely lengthens the conversation.
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Too often travel, instead of broadening the mind, merely lengthens the conversation.
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