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It is very perplexing how an intrepid frontier people, who fought a wilderness, floods, tornadoes, and the Rockies, cower before read more
It is very perplexing how an intrepid frontier people, who fought a wilderness, floods, tornadoes, and the Rockies, cower before criticism, which is regarded as a malignant tumor in the imagination.
The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
Criticism is a misconception: we must read not to understand others but to understand ourselves.
Criticism is a misconception: we must read not to understand others but to understand ourselves.
Every writing career starts as a personal quest for sainthood, for self-betterment. Sooner or later, and as a rule quite read more
Every writing career starts as a personal quest for sainthood, for self-betterment. Sooner or later, and as a rule quite soon, a man discovers that his pen accomplishes a lot more than his soul.
I was allowed to ring the bell for five minutes until everyone was in assembly. It was the beginning of read more
I was allowed to ring the bell for five minutes until everyone was in assembly. It was the beginning of power.
People want you to be a crazy, out-of-control teen brat. They want you miserable, just like them. They don't want read more
People want you to be a crazy, out-of-control teen brat. They want you miserable, just like them. They don't want heroes; what they want is to see you fall.
Today the discredit of words is very great. Most of the time the media transmit lies. In the face of read more
Today the discredit of words is very great. Most of the time the media transmit lies. In the face of an intolerable world, words appear to change very little. State power has become congenitally deaf, which is why --but the editorialists forget it --terrorists are reduced to bombs and hijacking.
No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.
No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.
Wear the old coat and buy the new book.
Wear the old coat and buy the new book.