Quote #8310
A writer must refuse to allow himself to be transformed into an institution.
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Experience is the worst teacher it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
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Although the constant shadow of certain death looms over everyday, the pleasures and joys...
Quote #23986
Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep...
Quote #34405
Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The...
Quote #20849
Lord, what fools these mortals be
Quote #30157
Pride would be a lot easier to swallow if it didn’t taste so bad.
Quote #16544
When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become...
Quote #13741
Bad habits are like a comfortable bed, easy to get into, but hard to...
Quote #3198
Courtly love-poetry may first have been written during long periods of abstinence on the...