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[O]ne can scarcely be frightened off writing what one wants to write for fear an obscure reviewer should patronise one on that account.

People who prefer to believe the worst of others will breed war and religious persecutions while the world lasts.

To make a deliberate falsification for personal gain is the last, worst depth to which either scholar or artist can descend in work or life., 8 September 1935)

To make a deliberate falsification for personal gain is the last, worst depth to which either scholar or artist can descend in work or

The city gives even to children a sophisticated look that baffles the casual psychologist.

The tree of knowledge is not the tree of life! And yet can we cast out of our spirits all the good or evil poured into them by so many learned generations? Ignorance cannot be learned.

I still make sure to go, at least once every year, to a country where things cannot be taken for granted, and where there is either too much law and order or too little.

We are coming into a new era of flight, an ear in which all past conception of time and distance is changing and changing at a very, very rapid rate.

Rick Perry said America's revolutionary war was fought in the 16th century. When told it was actually the 18th century, Perry apologized and said, 'I never said I was a geology major.'

I'm grasping with how you do something on a large scale with multiple operations and not have quality decrease.

We should not see print and electronic literature as in competition, but rather in conversation. The more voices that join in, the richer the dialogue is likely to be.

I'm always projecting onto objects like they're alive in some way.

Religion deals in certainties and philosophy deals more in un-answered questions.

But when we are nostalgic, we take pictures