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Sentimentalism is the working off on yourself of feelings you haven't really got.
They who go Feel not the pain of parting; it is they Who stay behind that suffer.
The man whom God wills to slay in the struggle of life - he first individualizes.
There are so many separate selves; no one who writes creatively hasn't felt that.
Is the babe young? When I behold it, it seems more venerable than the oldest man.
If literature isn't everything, it's not worth a single hour of someone's trouble.
Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Literature is one of the most interesting and significant expressions of humanity.
Women may not have it easy, but we are given a fairer chance to reach for the top.
Writers rush in where publishers fear to tread and where translators fear to tread
We go to poetry, we go to literature in general, to be forwarded within ourselves.
If a woman hasn't got a tiny streak of harlot in her, she's a dry stick as a rule.
Again, both literature and philosophy work by appealing to certain reigning idols.
A good writer is basically a story teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind.
It is better not to express what one means than to express what one does not mean.
There are vogues and fashions in jurisprudence as in literature and art and dress.
It is the glorious doom of literature that the evil perishes and the good remains.
I prefer unlucky things. Luck is vulgar. Who wants what luck would bring? I don't.
The mission of the press is to spread culture while destroying the attention span.
The great standard of literature as to purity and exactness of style is the Bible.
Lovers have a way of using this word "nothing" which implies exactly the opposite.
As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue.
I didn't choose literature. Literature chose me. There was no decision on my side.
We are all like Scheherazade's husband, in that we want to know what happens next.
The civility which money will purchase, is rarely extended to those who have none.
The scientific observer of Nature is a kind of mystic seeker in the act of prayer.
A gene can be either dominant or recessive, depending on which type of gene it is.
When a man bores a woman, she complains. When a woman bores a man, he ignores her.
Any task can be completed in only one-third more time than is currently estimated.
Writing is finally play, and there's no reason why you should get paid for playing
Know about the appeals process, especially in the case of the most serious crimes.
We forget the little things, so it's no wonder some of us screw up the big things.
Princes and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society.
All of the troubles that some people have in life is that which they married into.
Our unconscious is not more animal than our conscious, it is often even more human
If it is good literature, the reader and the writer will connect. It's inevitable.
I'm not so sure that horror should be dismissed as something less than literature.
It is in literature that the concrete outlook of humanity receives its expression.
Forgiveness to the injured does belong; but they ne'er pardon who have done wrong.
Whether you want to call it God or the mystery of the cosmos doesn't matter to me.
Willmott, the English essayist, says poetry is the natural religion of literature.
The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.
Many senators have developed a canny sense of what will play best for the audience.
Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing.
I ask of literature precisely those things of which I feel the lack in my own life.
Spreading the news is your duty as a Christian, and there are many ways to do this.
It's generally much easier to kill an organization than to change it substantially.
You will be judged in years to come by how you responded to genocide on your watch.
Let your literary compositions be kept from the public eye for nine years at least.
One of the unsung freedoms that go with a free press is the freedom not to read it.