Category: writer
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I can be almost terminally grief-stricken because things are so dire, but at the same time, there’s a real lightheartedness about just the recoverability of life, of how things change, how they’re not the same, ever again.
Alice Walker
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Example is the best precept.
Aesop
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Those who have no record of what their forebears have accomplished lose the inspiration which comes from the teaching of biography and history.
Carter G. Woodson
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Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.
Honore de Balzac
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I’m sure we, the American people, are the butt of jokes by those in power.
Alice Walker
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Grant me thirty years of equal division of inheritances and a free press, and I will provide you with a republic.
Alexis de Tocqueville
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I am impelled, not to squeak like a grateful and apologetic mouse, but to roar like a lion out of pride in my profession.
John Steinbeck
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The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.
Albert Schweitzer
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In order to exist, man must rebel, but rebellion must respect the limits that it discovers in itself – limits where minds meet, and in meeting, begin to exist.
Albert Camus
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Frankly, these days, without a theory to go with it, I can’t see a painting.
Tom Wolfe