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My own experience is that a certain kind of genius among students is best brought out in bed.
For me, literature is a way of enlarging myself by learning about people who are not like me.
If I didn't see its place in the Saga when I planned it, I probably wouldn't write it at all.
I don't think men experience the embargo on channeling the autobiography in their literature.
We shall be better prepared for the future if we see how terrible, how doomed the present is.
The difference between humans and wild animals is that humans pray before they commit murder.
Bigot: One who is obstinately and zealously attached to an opinion that you do not entertain.
Literature doesn't matter! The only thing that matters is money and getting your teeth fixed!
All art, literature, and music must be born in your heart's blood. Art is your heart's blood.
It is not part of a true culture to tame tigers, any more than it is to make sheep ferocious.
Front yards are not made to walk in, but, at most, through, and you could go in the back way.
In terms of broadcasting, you have to make decisions about where you want to spend your time.
That's the nature of women, not to love when we love them, and to love when we love them not.
I'm in the civil discourse business. I think it takes all kinds. And more power to everybody.
Keep reminding yourself that literature is one of the saddest roads that leads to everything.
No one who loves life can ignore literature, and no one who loves literature can ignore life.
We class schools into four grades: leading school, first-rate school, good school and school.
Dan Rather is guilty of not being skeptical enough about a story that was politically loaded.
Celebrity is the advantage of being known to people who we don't know, and who don't know us.
The writer can choose what he writes about but he cannot choose what he is able to make live.
Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed by them.
I could I trust starve like a gentleman. It's listed as part of the poetic training, you know.
The charms of the passing woman are generally in direct ratio to the swiftness of our passage.
What a profound significance small things assume when the woman we love conceals them from us.
By being faithful in that which is another man's, it qualifies you for that which is your own.
True memoir is written, like all literature, in an attempt to find not only a self but a world
For what were all these country patriots born? To hunt, and vote, and raise the price of corn?
Le mensonge et les vers de tout temps sont amis. Lies and literature have always been friends.
A bad review is like baking a cake with all the best ingredients and having someone sit on it.
It is unfair to blame man too fiercely for being pugnacious; he learned the habit from Nature.
When you kill somebody in the movies, it matters, whereas in literature it can be allegorical.
Remember that the smallest seed of faith is of more worth than the largest fruit of happiness.
There are lots of unlikable characters in literature. It doesn't mean they're not fascinating.
Much of outcomes research is a systematic attempt to exploit what is known and make it better.
I had a minor in Russian history, and this was at the time when the big Cold War was going on.
So mightiest powers buy deepest calms are fed, And sleep, how oft, in things that gentlest be!
The economic game is not supposed to be rigged like some shady ring toss on a carnival midway.
A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not.
Nobody can be perfect unless he admits his faults, but if he has faults how can he be perfect?
The human consciousness is really homogeneous. There is no complete forgetting, even in death.
Surely something resides in this heart that is not perishable - and life is more than a dream.
There is nothing so aggravating as a fresh boy who is too old to ignore and too young to kick.
I do not know if she was virtuous, but she was ugly, and with a woman that is half the battle.
I am about to be married, and am of course in all the misery of a man in pursuit of happiness.
Literature is not exhaustible, for the sufficient and simple reason that a single book is not.
Nothing is more indispensable to true religiosity than a mediator that links us with divinity.
Russian literature, like colonial Canadian literature, comes with a lot of landscape backdrop.
Because of Watergate in part, I am kind of a magnet for calls and information and suggestions.
It's possible to become so comfortable with one's style and structure that one ceases to grow.
There is always a present and extant life, be it better or worse, which all combine to uphold.