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How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood...
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In times like these, it helps to recall that there have always been times...
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Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or...
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Be a craftsman in speech that thou mayest be strong, for the strength of...
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A poem is no place for an idea.
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Basic research is what I am doing when I don’t know what I am...
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To die for an idea it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it...
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They wanted facts. Facts! They demanded facts from him, as if facts could explain...
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Continental people have sex-lives the English have hot-water bottles.
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To St. Paul, stripes, stones, shipwrecks, and thorns in the flesh were religious experiences...