"Authors do not supply imaginations, they expect their……" — Nella Larsen
"Authors do not supply imaginations, they expect their readers to have their own, and to use it"
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10 Quotes by Nella Larsen
Nella Larsen has 10 quotes on this site.
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Everything can't be explained by some general biological phrase.
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I feel like the oldest person in the world with the longest stretch of life before me.
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Lies, injustice, and hypocrisy are a part of every ordinary community. Most people achieve a sort of protective immunity, a…
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I think being a mother is the cruelest thing in the world.
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Children aren't everything. There are other things in the world, thought I admit some people don't seem to suspect it.
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What are friends for, if not to help bear our sins?
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These people yapped loudly of race, of race consciousness, of race pride, and yet suppressed its most delightful manifestations, love…
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Somewhere, within her, in a deep recess, crouched discontent. She began to lose confidence in the fullness of her life,…
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The trouble with Clare was, not only that she wanted to have her cake and eat it too, but that…
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Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to…
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Among all kinds of Writing, there is none in which Authors are more apt to miscarry than in Works of…
— Joseph Addison
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It can happen that a book, unlike its authors, grows younger as the years pass.
— John Berger
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Booksellers are the most valuable destination for the lonely, given the numbers of books that were written because authors couldn't…
— Alain de Botton
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Musicians are at the bottom of the creative pyramid and authors are at the top, and many people think it's…
— Nick Cave
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There are a lot of authors in the world, so it's difficult to find a unique niche to present your…
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We must be authors of the history of our age.
— Madeleine Albright
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among the values of classical learning I estimate the Luxury of reading the Greek & Roman authors in all the…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading…
— Joseph Addison
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Thousands of volumes have been written about aviation, but we do not automatically have thousands of true and special friends…
— Richard Bach
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The Poor Man whom everyone speaks of, the Poor Man whom everyone pities, one of the repulsive Poor from whom…
— Albert Camus
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Most bad books get that way because their authors are engaged in trying to justify themselves. If a vain author…
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