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Having been unpopular in high school is not just cause for book publications.
Having been unpopular in high school is not just cause for book publications.
Writers seldom choose as friends those self-contained characters who are never in trouble, never unhappy or ill, never make mistakes, read more
Writers seldom choose as friends those self-contained characters who are never in trouble, never unhappy or ill, never make mistakes, and always count their change when it is handed to them.
Keep your words sweet -- you may have to eat them. I expect to pass through this world but once; read more
Keep your words sweet -- you may have to eat them. I expect to pass through this world but once; any good thing therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now; let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.
By words the mind is winged.
By words the mind is winged.
No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.
No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.
To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in the flow of language read more
To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in the flow of language the sudden flash of poetry.
Wear the old coat and buy the new book.
Wear the old coat and buy the new book.
Essential characteristic of the really great novelist: a Christ-like, all-embracing compassion.
Essential characteristic of the really great novelist: a Christ-like, all-embracing compassion.
Critics are usually kinder to cheaper movies than to those they perceive to be big Hollywood releases. They cut you read more
Critics are usually kinder to cheaper movies than to those they perceive to be big Hollywood releases. They cut you a lot more slack if you spend less money, which makes no sense.
