5 Quotes & Sayings By James Beattie

James Beattie is a former English teacher, a journalist, a novelist and a short story writer. He taught for many years at the University of Michigan. His first novel, The Black Mass, won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and was long listed for the Man Booker Prize. His second novel, King of Thorns, was shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize and won the 2006 Hawthornden Prize Read more

He has also written two books of short stories, The Kissing Couple and How the Dead Live.

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The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think - rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with the thoughts of other men. James Beattie
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How sweet the words of Truth, breathed from the lips of Love. James Beattie
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No jealousy their dawn of love overcast, nor blasted were their wedded days with strife; each season looked delightful as it past, to the fond husband and the faithful wife. James Beattie
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And beauty immortal awakes from the tomb. James Beattie