There is a great tendency today to want everybody to write just the way everybody else does, to see and to show the same things in the same way to the same middling audience. But the writer, in order best to use the talents he...
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Flannery OConnor
More than once I should have lost my soul to radicalism if it had been the originality it was mistaken for by its young converts.
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Robert Frost
A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought.
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Dorothy L. Sayers
Unlike written words which can mend those leaving the tip of your tongue never bend.
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R.J. Green
He: "Whale you be my valentine?" She: "Dolphinitely.
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Adam Young
More Quotes By Oliver Wendell Holmes
A mind stretched by a new ideanever shrinks back to its original proportions. ~
To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.
You commit a sin of omission if you do not utilize all the power that is within you. All men have claims on man and to the man with special talents this is a very special claim. It is required that a man take part...
Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
I confess that altruistic and cynically selfish talk seem to me about equally unreal. With all humility I think 'whatsoever thy hand findeth to do do it with thy might ' infinitely more important than the vain attempt to love one's neighbour as one's self....
