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 T. S. Eliot
How wild it was, to let it be.
We understand the ordinary business of living, We know how to work the machine
You are not here to verify, instruct yourself, or inform curiosityor carry report. You are here to kneelwhere prayer has been valid. And prayer is more than an order of words, the conscious occupation of the praying mind, or the sound of the voice praying.
A toothache, or a violent passion, is not necessarily diminished by our knowledge of its causes, its character, its importance or insignificance.
It is not necessarily those lands which are the most fertile or most favored in climate that seem to me the happiest but those in which a long struggle of adaptation between man and his environment has brought out the best qualities of both.
